From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America.
These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, and Gide. The collection therefore foregrounds the major authors taught in British university BA courses in French and German. Working with the tools of feminist criticism, the authors demonstrate how feminist readings of these writings can illuminate far more than attitudes towards women.
These 12 essays explore the increasing sophistication of the contributions of feminist criticism to scholarly analysis of canonical male writers. Working through works by six French writers (Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gide, Rousseau, Stendhal, Zola) and six German writers (Fontane, Goethe, Heine, Hoffman, Kafka, Schiller), contributors explore such topics as a feminist reading of Faust, sexual difference in Rousseau's Confessions, gender in Schiller's drama and Hoffman's ideas about subjectivity and art, female agency in Stendhal, Heine's views on emancipation, Baudelaire's "world of women," Flaubert's treatment of the absolute, bodies in Zola and Fontane, Kafka's flight from manhood and Gide's perfect child. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America.
These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, and Gide. The collection therefore foregrounds the major authors taught in British university BA courses in French and German. Working with the tools of feminist criticism, the authors demonstrate how feminist readings of these writings can illuminate far more than attitudes towards women.
From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. The collection therefore foregrounds the major authors taught on British university BA courses in French and German. Working with the tools of feminist criticism, the authors demonstrate how feminist readings of these writings can illuminate far more than attitudes towards women.
Preface List of Contributors Introduction
1. Errant Strivings: Goethe, Faust and the Feminist Reader, Gail K. Hart
2. Hospitality and Sexual Difference in Rousseau's Confessions, Judith Still
3. Gender and Genre: Schiller's Drama and Aesthetics, Lesley Sharpe
4. Male Foibles, Female Critique and Narrative Capriciousness: On the Function of Gender in Conceptions of Art and Subjectivity in E.T.A., Hoffmann Ricarda Schmidt
5. Varieties of Female Agency in Stendhal, Ann Jefferson
6. Heine's 'Madchen und Frauen': Women and Emancipation in the Writings of Heinrich Heine, Robert C. Holub
7. Mundus Muliebris: Baudelaire's World of Women, Rosemary Lloyd
8. Flaubert's Cautionary Tales and the Art of the Absolute Mary Orr, Patricia Howe
9. Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History, Jann Matlock
10. Karl Rossmann, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up: The Flight from Manhood in Kafka's Der Verschollene, Elizabeth Boa
11. Andre Gide and the Making of the Perfect Child, Naomi Segal Postscript Notes Bibliography of Secondary Literature 1. General Works 2. Works on Specific Authors Index
Mary Orr is Professor of French at the University of Southampton. Her principal publications include: Flauberts Madame Bovary: Representations of the Masculine and Flaubert: Writing the Masculine
Lesley Sharpe is Professor of German at the University of Exeter. Her principal publications include Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics and The Cambridge Companion to Goethe
