Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland

by Todd Curtis Kontje

Book Overview

In this 1998 book, Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period, he shows the historical and thematic coherence of a body of fiction by women that has been obscured by traditional literary histories. He explores ways in which novels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521025427
• ISBN13: 9780521025423
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"