The Virginal Mother in German Culture: From Sophie Von La Roche and Goethe to Metropolis

by Lauren Nossett

The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the complex social ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother. At the same time, she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810139294
• ISBN13: 9780810139299
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"