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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Edited by J. M. Catling University of East Anglia 228 x 152 mm 414pp March 2000 Hardback ISBN: 0 521 44482 9, £42.50 Paperback ISBN: 0 521 65628 1, £15.95 Contributors: Jo Catling, Margaret Ives, Almut Suerbaum, Helen Watanabe O’Kelly, Lesley Sharpe, Judith Purver, Pat Howe, Petra Boden, Chris Weedon, Sabine Werner-Birkenbach, Agnès Cardinal, Sonja Hilzinger, Margaret Littler, Ricarda Schmidt, Karen Leeder, Angelika Bammer, Anna K. Kuhn, Elizabeth Boa Description This book is the first English account of women’s writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, offering both an introduction and a chronological overview of the whole field of women’s writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. It will appeal both to students and scholars of German literature, and to a wider readership interested in women’s writing and gender studies wishing to learn about the diversity and development of writing by women in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The sixteen chapters, written by experts in their field, provide a comprehensive account of women’s writing over a thousand-year period. Extensive guides to further reading, and a detailed guide to more than four hundred writers and works, together with an index for cross-referencing, form an integral part of the volume. Chapter Contents Introduction Part I. Beginnings to 1700 1. The Middle Ages - Margaret Ives and Almut Suerbaum 2. Women’s writing in the early modern period - Helen Watanabe O’Kelly Part II. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 3. The Enlightenment - Lesley Sharpe 4. Revolution, Romanticism, Restoration - Judith Purver 5. Women’s writing 1830-1890 - Pat Howe 6. Political writing and women’s journals: the 1848 Revolutions - Petra Boden Part III ‘Coming of age’: 1890-1945 7. The struggle for emancipation - Chris Weedon 8. Trends in writing by women 1910-1933 - Sabine Werner- Birkenbach 9. Women’s writing under National Socialism - Agnès Cardinal 10. Writing in exile - Sonja Hilzinger Part IV. Post-war, East and West 11. Restoration and resistance: women’s writing 1945-1970 - Margaret Littler 12. GDR women writers - Ricarda Schmidt 13. Post-1945 women’s poetry from East and West - Karen Leeder 14. Feminism, Frauenliteratur, and women’s writing of the 1970s and 80s - Angelika Bammer 15. Women’s writings in Germany since 1989 - Anna K. Kuhn 16. Writing about women writing in German: postcript and perspectives - Elizabeth Boa Guides to further reading Bibliographical guide to writers and their works. Ordering instructions and sample chapter (1) are available on the CUP website: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/ Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU Tel: +44 (0)1223 312393 Fax: +44 (0)1223 315052 [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%