Recasting Historical Women: Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction

by Stephanie Bird

This book presents critical readings of eight contemporary German novels which feature historically documented women as their main protagonist, and which reconstruct women's lives by combining source material and invention. Protagonists include Cornelia Goethe, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Karoline von Guenderrode and Charlotte Corday. Through a thorough examination of these novels, the wider complexities of female identity, feminism, literary technique...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859739628
• ISBN13: 9781859739624
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.4"