German Studies 300 - TOPC: 19TH CENT WOMEN WRITERS

Topics course.: We discuss short stories, essays and novels by German and Austrian women writers in the long 19th century. What do these texts reveal about gender and class relations in Germany and Austria in the 19th century? How do women authors represent female sexuality and the institution of marriage? And how do they address the political unrest of their time? We read both canonical and non-canonical texts by Gabriele Reuter, Helene Böhlau, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Louise Otto, Clara Viebig and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Conducted in German.

Topic: Women Writing German in the Nineteenth Century.