Gender, Canon and Literary History: The Changing Place of Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers (1835-1918)

by Ruth Whittle

It has been shown that the total number of women who published in German in the 18th and 19th centuries was approximately 3,500, but even by 1918 only a few of them were known. The reason for this lies in the selection processes to which the authors have been subjected, and it is this selection process that is the focus of the research here presented.

The selection criteria have not simply been gender-based but have had much to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110259222
• ISBN13: 9783110259223
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary