Women and death : representations of female victims and perpetrators in German culture 1500-2000 /
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| Imprint: | Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008. |
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| Description: | viii, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7481070 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Death and the Maiden: A German Topic?
- 2. Murdering Mothers in Bible Stories and Fairy Tales in Germany, 1550-1900
- 3. Virgin Sacrifices: Iphigenia and Jephthah's Daughter
- 4. Mourning and Violence: Kriemhild's Incorporated Memory
- 5. Narratives of Dismembering Women in Northern Germany, 1600-1800
- 6. Images of Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century Germany
- 7. Mourning with a Female Heart? Grief and Gender in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
- 8. Female Vampires, Victimhood, and Vengeance in German Literature around 1800
- 9. Murderous Women in German Opera
- 10. Constructing the femme fatale: A Dialogue between Sexology and the Visual Arts in Germany around 1900
- 11. Media Representations of Vera Bruhne as femme fatale
- 12. Gender in the Work of Grief and Mourning: Contemporary Requiems in German Literature
- Works Cited
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
