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Mathilde Möhring

Mathilde Möhring

Fontane, Theodor
Huener, Rachael
Chambers, Helen

Hardcover

Series: Women and Gender in German Studies, Book 15

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1640141774
ISBN13: 9781640141773
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Oct 10 2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today.

Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel Mathilde Möhring because he believed it was too subtle and spare for the popular taste of the day. Published posthumously in 1906, its themes - corrosive economic precarity, the ambivalence of marriage for women, and the burden of work expectations for men - resonate uncannily with readers today. The heroine Mathilde and her mother cling to the underside of the lower middle class by renting out a room in their small Berlin apartment. Their new tenant seems to offer a path to middle-class security, so although marriage is not her first choice, Mathilde applies her shrewd understanding of class mores to pursue it - with results both triumphant and catastrophic.

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