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9780199267545

The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914

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    0199267545

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-03-25
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(19)
1. 'On peut le comparer...à une sorte de maladie': Women and Medicine, 1770-1914 20(44)
2. 'Die zarte Pflanze welkte hin': Wasting Women in German Fiction by Men, 1770-1914 64(22)
3. 'Ich sterbe, weil ich dich liebte': Conventional Wasting in Fiction by Women, 1770-1914 86(27)
4. 'Man stirbt wirklich nicht aus Liebesgram, obschon Ihr Männer dieses gerne glauben möchtet': Alternative Wasting Heroines 113(33)
5. 'Die bleichen, vom Nichtsthun, von Sehnsucht und Enttäuschung verzehrten Mädchen': Repression and Apathy in Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941) 146(23)
6. 'Freiheit will ich! körperlose, schrankenlose!': Helene Böhlau (1856-1940), Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919), and the Emancipatory Value of Illness, Food Refusal, and Vegetarianism 169(25)
Conclusion 194(6)
Bibliography 200(19)
Index 219

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