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A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

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Cambridge University Press, 3/23/2000
EAN 9780521656283, ISBN10: 0521656281

Paperback, 414 pages, 22.7 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

This book is the first English account of women's writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, offering both an introduction and a chronological overview of the whole field of women's writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. It will appeal both to students and scholars of German literature, and to a wider readership interested in women's writing and gender studies wishing to learn about the diversity and development of writing by women in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The sixteen chapters, written by experts in their field, provide a comprehensive account of women's writing over a thousand-year period. Extensive guides to further reading, and a detailed guide to more than four hundred writers and works, together with an index for cross-referencing, form an integral part of the volume.

Introduction
Part I. Beginnings to 1700
1. The Middle Ages Margaret Ives and Almut Suerbaum
2. Women's writing in the early modern period Helen Watanabe O'Kelly
Part II. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
3. The Enlightenment Lesley Sharpe
4. Revolution, Romanticism, Restoration Judith Purver
Women's writing 1830–1890 Pat Howe
6. Political writing and women's journals
the 1848 Revolutions Petra Boden
Part III 'Coming of age'
1890–1945
7. The struggle for emancipation Chris Weedon
8. Trends in writing by women 1910–1933 Sabine Werner-Birkenbach
9. Women's writing under National Socialism Agnès Cardinal
10. Writing in exile Sonja Hilzinger
Part IV. Post-war, East and West
11. Restoration and resistance
women's writing 1945–1970 Margaret Littler
12. GDR women writers Ricarda Schmidt
13. Post-1945 women's poetry from East and West Karen Leeder
14. Feminism, Frauenliterature, and women's writing of the 1970s and 80s Angelika Bammer
15. Women's writings in Germany since 1989 Anna K. Kuhn
16. Writing about women writing in German
postcript and perspectives Elizabeth Boa
Guides to further reading
Bibliographical guide to writers and their works.