The Virginal Mother in German Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virginal Mother in German Culture write by Lauren Nossett. This book was released on 2019-03-15. The Virginal Mother in German Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 shows that the literary depictions of virginal mothers correspond to vilified biological mother figures, which point to a perceived threat in the long nineteenth century of the mother’s procreative power. Examining the virginal mother in the first novel by a German woman (Sophie von La Roche), canonical texts by Goethe, nineteenth-century popular fiction, autobiographical works, and Thea von Harbou’s novel Metropolis and Fritz Lang’s film by the same name, this book highlights the virginal mother at pivotal moments in German history and cultural development: the entrance of women into the literary market, the Goethezeit, the foundation of the German Empire, and the volatile Weimar Republic. The Virginal Mother in German Culture will be of interest to students and scholars of German literature, history, cultural and social studies, and women’s studies.
The Virginal Mother in German Literature
The Virginal Mother in German Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virginal Mother in German Literature write by Lauren Nossett. This book was released on 2016. The Virginal Mother in German Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Representations of female virginity and motherhood have a long and complex history in German literature and culture, but little attention has been given to how these contradictory ideologies have manifested in a recurring figure: the virginal mother. A young, chaste woman who provides unpaid care for children not her own and simultaneously practices her maternal skills before consummating marriage, this character reflects the social ideal of woman as both a maternal and sexless being and is influential in perpetuating a moral and social standard for women. This dissertation explores the development of the virginal mother from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century and argues that the virginal mother reveals a discontinuity in the prevailing discourse of maternal nature by showing that mothering is not only a skill that needs to be taught, but also a concept highly susceptible to ideological manipulation. Sexualized, but not sexual; maternal, but not a biological mother, this figure represents an ideal of femininity. At the same time, it serves as a vehicle to explore the contradictory gender ideologies associated with the rise of the middle class and the role of female labor in the German family and nation throughout the long nineteenth century.
Writing the Self, Creating Community
Writing the Self, Creating Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Self, Creating Community write by Elisabeth Krimmer. This book was released on 2020. Writing the Self, Creating Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.
Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature
Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature write by Karina Marie Ash. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives and mothers for religious ones as nuns and beguines. This anxiety and the subsequent need to model an ideal of feminine behavior for the laity is particularly expressed in the German versions of Latin and French narratives. Using thirteenth-century penitentials, monastic exempla, and sermons, Karina Marie Ash clarifies how secular wifehood was recast as a quasi-religious role and, in German epics and romances from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, how female characters are adapted to promote the salvific nature of worldly love in ways that echo the pastoral reevaluation of women at that time. Then she argues that mid and late thirteenth-century German literature not only reflects this impulse to idealize women's roles in lay society but also to promote an alternative model of femininity that deploys ways of privileging secular roles for women over religious ones. These continuously evolving readaptations of female protagonists across cultures and across centuries reflect fictive solutions for real historical concerns about women that not only complement contemporary pastoral and legal reforms but are also unique to medieval German literature.
A History of German Literature
A History of German Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of German Literature write by John George Robertson. This book was released on 1931. A History of German Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
