Armed ambiguity : women warriors in German literature and culture in the age of Goethe /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Koser, Julie, author.
Imprint:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	x, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Women in literature -- History -- 18th century. Women in literature -- History -- 19th century. German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Violence in literature. Femininity in literature. Women -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 18th century. Women -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Femininity in literature. German literature. Violence in literature. Women in literature. Women -- Social conditions. Germany. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10559314

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ISBN:	9780810132344 0810132346 9780810132320 081013232X 9780810132337
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction: Mythologizing the Woman Warrior
Chapter 1. The Power of the Press: Eighteenth-Century German Print Culture Constructs the Woman Warrior
Chapter 2. Armed Ambiguity Personified: The French Assassin Charlotte Corday and German Ambivalence
Chapter 3. Armed Virtue: The Woman Warrior as Defender of the "Domestic" Good
Chapter 4. Emancipatory Fantasies: The Woman Warrior as Liberator and (Proto-)Feminist
Chapter 5. Treasonous Transgressions: A Nation of Women Warriors and the Politics of Desire
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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