The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 January 2004
- ISBN 9780199267545
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages236 pages
- Size 224x145x17 mm
- Weight 402 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this broad-ranging study, Richards examines the representation of women's illness in German fiction by women 1770-1914. In the context of medical history, she focuses particularly on female self-starvation and wasting diseases, illustrating how the 'wasting heroine' both reinforced and challenged popular notions of female fragility.
MoreLong description:
In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women 1770-1914, Anna Richards adds a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. Drawing on a number of primary medical sources, she constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour, and wasting diseases in particular, and examines the portrayal of the 'wasting heroine' in works by female and selected male authors in this context. It becomes clear that though the wasting heroine sometimes reinforces popular notions of female fragility, in certain works she represents a rejection of a traditionally female role or allows her author to make a socially critical point about women's status in society. As well as shedding light on many unduly neglected women writers, Richards offers a valuable insight into the literary and historical origins of a modern phenomenon.
The study is impressive in its breadth and depth. Richard elucidates a topic of concern to women today, as the gendered aetiology of depression, for example, indicates.... It systematically traces the trope of illness and health over a century and digests the existing secondary literature in elegant prose. Wasting Heroine contributes much needed literary and historical research on the gendered nature of health.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
'On peut le comparer [. . .] à une sorte de maladie': Women and Medicine
'Die zarte Pflanze welkte hin': Wasting Women in German Fiction by Men
'Ich sterbe, weil ich dich liebte': Conventional Wasting in Fiction by Women
'Man stirbt wirklich nicht aus Liebesgram, obschon Ihr Männer dieses gerne glauben möchtet': Alternative Wasting Heroines
'Die bleichen, vom Nichtsthun, von Sehnsucht und Enttäuschung verzehrten Mädchen': Repression and Apathy in Gabriele Reuter
'Freiheit will ich! körperlose, schrankenlose!': Helene Böhlau, Hedwig Dohm, and the Emancipatory Value of Illness, Food Refusal, and Vegetarianism
Conclusion
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