Lauren Nossett

The Virginal Mother in German Culture

From Sophie Von La Roche and Goethe to Metropolis

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents an analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 230mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780810139299
• ISBN-10: 0810139294
• Artikelnr.: 53447640

Autorenporträt

Lauren Nossettis a visiting assistant professor of German at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Introduction
3. 1. The Creation of the Virginal Mother: Sophie von La Roche’s The History
of Lady Sophia Sternheim
4. 2. The Ideal Virgin and Failed Mother: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The
Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, and Faust I
5. 3. The Popular Virginal Mother: E. Marlitt’s The Old Maid’s Secret and The
Second Wife
6. 4. The “Real” Virginal Mother: Caregiving and Motherhood in the
Autobiographies of Hedwig Dohm, Adelheid Popp, and Ottilie Baader
7. 5. The Virginal Mother of Orphans and the Vamp Anti-Mother: Thea von Harbou
and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
8. Conclusion
9. Notes
10. Bibliography
11. Index