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Recasting Historical Women: Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction

Recasting Historical Women: Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1859739628
ISBN13: 9781859739624
Publisher: Berg 3pl
Published: Apr 1 1998
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
This book presents critical readings of eight contemporary German novels which feature historically documented women as their main protagonist, and which reconstruct women's lives by combining source material and invention. Protagonists include Cornelia Goethe, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Karoline von Guenderrode and Charlotte Corday. Through a thorough examination of these novels, the wider complexities of female identity, feminism, literary technique and historiography are illuminated and discussed. The author examines how historical events are used to substantiate ideological positions and how the narrators consider this problematic aspect of their project.

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