| Luise Buechner: A Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Feminist Contributor(s): Brown, Peter D. G. (Other), Scharpf, Cordelia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039103253 ISBN-13: 9783039103256 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $108.21 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - History | Europe - Germany - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008500379 |
| Series: Women in German Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 396 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise B chner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of B chner's fictional writings reveals that she both entertained and educated her readers. Her pedagogical messages correspond to ideas she promoted in her work on the woman question . This in-depth study properly situates her in the changing cultural climate and socio-political developments that led to unification of the German states in 1871. B chner tested and revised her thoughts on the woman question in the course of her practical work as a co-founder of local women's associations and as a member of two competing national bourgeois women's organizations. Her voice and temperament, as reflected in letters and articles not consulted by previous biographers, lead to surprising discoveries about a single woman whose life had more to offer than the narrowly prescribed roles assigned to middle-class women of her day. |
