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Women and death : representations of female victims and perpetrators in German culture 1500-2000

Title: Women and death : representations of female victims and perpetrators in German culture 1500-2000 / edited by Helen Fronius and Anna Linton.
Publication: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.

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Description

viii, 267 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture

Uniform Title

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Alternative Title

Women & death

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-255) and index.

Contents

Death and the maiden: a German topic? / Stefanie Knöll -- Murdering mothers in Bible stories and fairy tales in Germany, 1550-1900 / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- Virgin sacrifices: Iphigenia and Jephthah's daughter / Anna Linton -- Mourning and violence: Kriemhild's incorporated memory / Bettina Bildnauer -- Narrataives of dismembering women in Northern Germany, 1600-1800 / Mary Lindemann -- Images of infanticide in eighteenth-century Germany / Helen Fronius -- Mourning with a female heart? Grief and gender in late eighteenth-cenury Germany / Anna Richards -- Female vampires, victimhood, and vengeance in German literature around 1800 / Jurgen Barkhoff -- Murderous women in German opera / Laurence Kramer -- Constructing the femme fatale: a diologue between sexology and the visual arts in Germany around 1900 / Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius -- Media representations of Vera Bruhne as femme fatale / Clare Bielby -- Gender in the work of grief and mourning: contemporary Requiems in German literature / Gisela Ecker.

Call Number

JFD 09-363

ISBN

9781571133854 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1571133852 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008018919

OCLC

185033043

Title

Women and death : representations of female victims and perpetrators in German culture 1500-2000 / edited by Helen Fronius and Anna Linton.

Imprint

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.

Series

Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-255) and index.

Added Author

Fronius, Helen, 1975-

Linton, Anna, 1975-

Cover Title

Women & death

Research Call Number

JFD 09-363

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