Tragedy in paradise : family and gender politics in German bourgeois tragedy, 1750-1850 / Gail K. Hart.

Author/creator Hart, Gail Kathleen
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoColumbia, S.C. : Camden House, ©1996.
Descriptionxiii, 136 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
German drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
German drama--18th century. --History and criticism.
German drama--19th century. --History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Families in literature.
Middle class in literature.
Literature and society--Germany. --History.

Contents A family without women: the triumph of the sentimental father in Lessing's Mifs Sara Sampson and Klinger's Sturm und Drang -- The London Merchant: Lessing's critical detour from Lillo's "Intercourse of Woe" and the matter of future Millwoods -- Star-gazing: authority, instinct and the women's world of Goethe's Stella -- "Das Wesen war' es, wenn es nicht erschiene?" The spectacle of Goethe's Eugenie ; Coda: "Kinder der Einsamkeit" Goethe's variations on family and reproduction -- Die Reue nach der Tat and Die Kindsmorderin Heinrich Leopold Wagner's standards of critical deviancy -- Kleist's "Uber das Marionettentheater" and the effacement of Eve -- Sara and Klara: the anachronistic agonies of Hebbel's Maria Magdalene and the Italian aftermath.
Local noteLittle-326615--305131039356$
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [129]-133) and index.
LCCN 95050130
ISBN1571130373 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PT671 .H37 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold