Woman and Modernity: The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé

by Biddy Martin

Book Overview

Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salom have in large part neglected to offer--a sustained investigation of the literariness of Salom 's texts and of Salom as a significant reader of modernity. Focusing on key encounters in Salom 's writings, such as her exchanges with Nietzsche, Ibsen, Rilke, Freud, and late nineteenth-century middle-class German feminists such as Dohm and Stucker, Martin approaches Salom 's life and work as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801499070
• ISBN13: 9780801499074
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher