The Feminization of Dr. Faustus: Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner

by Helga Druxes

Book Overview

While the decline of the male hero in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature is usually studied in isolation, Druxes uses a major manifestation of this phenomenon-the failing power of the Faust myth-as an interpretive lens through which to illuminate the corresponding rise in the viability of female Faustian heroes or would-be heroes. Her study of the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James, and the contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271028009
• ISBN13: 9780271028002
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"