Women and family life in early modern German literature

著者

• Nivre, Elisabeth Wåghäll

書誌事項

Women and family life in early modern German literature

Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre

（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）

Camden House, 2004

注記

Works cited: p. [199]-216

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A study of the discourse of gender in 16th-century German popular literature. Writers of sixteenth-century German popular literature took great interest in describing, debating, commenting on, and prescribing gender roles, and discourses of gender can be traced in texts of all kinds from this period. This book focuses on popular works by Georg Wickram, Jakob Frey, Martin Montanus, and Johann Fischart, all of whom published novels, joke books, plays and/or moral treatises on marriage and family life in Strasbourg in the sixteenth century. Their works express not only their own ideas on women's roles as wives and mothers, but also societal values at a time of religious, political, and cultural change. The view of gender issues provided by these writers is nota simple one, as they ascribed widely varying characteristics to "woman" and her relationship to "man." The book thus analyzes the social and cultural construction of the concept of "woman" as indicated not only by the narrators'comments, but also by the relationships and roles of men and women characters in the narratives. Overall, the focus is on the disparities that persisted in the sixteenth-century discourse of gender, confusing all attempts to arrive at definitive gender roles. In the end, the study argues for something that can best be described as a "flowing continuity" or a "continuous flow" in the discourses that form the sixteenth-century concepts of "woman" and "man." Elisabeth Waghall-Nivre is associate professor of German at Vaxjoe University, Sweden.

目次

Introduction Chapbooks -- Popular Texts for a Large Audience The Novels of Georg Wickram Woman, Wife, Witch? The Representation of Woman in Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung Polizeiordnungen: Taming the Shrew with Common Sense and the Law Conclusion Works Cited Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB00327158
• ISBN:
  • 1571131973
• LCCN: 2003016001
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Rochester, N.Y.
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 221 p., [1] p. of plate
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PT241
  • DC21 : 830.9/3522
• 件名:
  • LCSH : German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- Germany -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Women in literature
  • LCSH : Families in literature
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA06953310