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Virtuous Victim or Sexual Predator?: Women in German Literature, cartea 16

Autor Abigail Dunn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iul 2013
'Was ist eine Witwe mehr als ... ein aufgewärmtes Essen?' According to politician and statesman Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741-1796), widows were superfluous beings and second-hand goods, but they were also perceived by theologians and moralists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a threat due to their sexual experience and supposedly ungovernable lust. This book analyses the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of the widow in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German fiction. Male writers in the works discussed repeat the theory that, once deprived of their husbands, widows become sexually voracious. Indeed, the widow is often presented as a dangerous sexual predator who is prone to violence. Female authors, however, highlight the invisibility of the widow and portray her as a figure alienated from society and her family because she has internalized the ideas propounded by Hippel. The widow is depicted throughout as a figure to be at best re-educated and at worst to be feared and guarded against.
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ISBN-13: 9783034307765
ISBN-10: 3034307764
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 151 x 223 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
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Contents: Widowhood in nineteenth-century Germany: Legal and social realities - Popular perceptions of widows - Representations of the faithless widow throughout German literature - The widow as a death-bringer - The incestuous widow - The virtuous widow - Women's representations of widowhood.

Notă biografică

Abigail Dunn currently teaches English Language at the University of Bonn. She obtained a D.Phil in German from the University of Oxford in 2009.