Woman as Mediatrix: Essays on Nineteenth-Century European Women Writers

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

This selection of essays reveals the response of nineteenth-century women writers to the industrial revolution in Europe. Although it illustrates the variety of social and cultural backgrounds of authors whose lives spanned two centuries, this volume is unified by the introductory essay which explains how the industrial revolution altered women's perceptions of their roles, rights, and places in society. Subsequent essays treat the dual rebellions of women against personal and political mores, and describe how they attempted to escape sexual and cultural constraints and effected social reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313255151
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/14/1987
Series:	Contributions in Women's Studies , #73
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

AVRIEL H. GOLDBERGER is Professor and Chairman of the French Department at Hofstra University.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Germaine Bree
The Nineteenth Century: Insights of Contemporary Women Writers (Bettina Von Arnim, Mary Wollstonecraft, Flora Tristan) by Marie Claire Hoock-Demarle
Woman as Mediatrix: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Germaine de Stael by Madelyn Gutwirth
Mme de Stael and the Position of Women in France, England and Germany by Eve Sourian
Corinne and the "Yankee Corinna": Mme de Stael and Margaret Fuller by Paula Blanchard
George Sand's View of the English by Patricia Thompson
Trollope's Choice: Frances Trollope Reads George Sand by Marie-Jacque Hoog
George Sand and Marionettes by Julia Frey
Musset's Lorenzaccio: George Sand's Ultimate Gift by Alex Szooyi
Frederika Bremer: Sweden's First Feminist by Doris Asmundsson
An Introduction to the Life and Times of Louise Otto by Ruth Ellen Boetcher Joeres
Annette Van Droste-Bulshoff and Critics of "Die Judenbuche" by Maruta Lietina-Ray
Towards a New Freedom: Rachel Varhagen and the German Women Writers Before 1848 by Doris Starr Guilloton
A Nigilistka and a Communarde: Two Voices of the Nineteenth Century Russian Intelligentka by Isabelle Naginski
Juliette Adam: She Devil or Grande Francaise? by Jean Scammon Hyland and Daniel H. Thomas
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