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
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