Publisher's Synopsis
Each volume ofWomen in German Yearbookincludes a wide variety of feminist essays on German literature and culture. In volume 14 John M. Jeep focuses on women’s friendships in an anonymous twelfth-century paraphrase and commentary on theSong of Songs, Albrecht Classen examines a sixteenth-century songbook, and Mara R. Wade documents the importance of the contributions of three seventeenth-century Saxon sisters.
Melanie Archangeli draws attention to the contributions of Charlotte von Hezel. Gail K. Hart explores Friedrich Schiller’sDie Jungfrau von Orleans. Lisa C. Roetzel readsDie Günderodeas a documentation of Bettine von Arnim’s subversive notions of female genius.
Muriel Cormican analyzes the vacillation between submission and self-assertion of the female protagonist in Lou Andreas-Salomé’sDas Haus. Inca Rumold reads Else Lasker-Schüler’sDer Malikas a pacifist response to World War I. Friederike Emonds investigates the concepts of Heimat and Vaterland inFrau Emma kämpft im Hinterland. Catherine C. Marshall sees the alternative society created in Ilse Langner’sKlytämnestraas a feminist response to the rhetoric of war.
Dagmar C. G. Lorenz explores the concepts "man" and "animal" in the works of Jewish writers. Hannelore Mundt focuses on the narrator’s preoccupation with Katherine Mansfield in a recent novel by Christa Moog, and Sabine Wilke analyzes the cruel woman in the works of Monika Treut against the background of earlier depictions by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the marquis de Sade.
