From Goethe To Gide

Mary Orr is Professor of French at the University of Southampton. Her principal publications include: Flaubert’s Madame Bovary: Representations of the Masculine and Flaubert: Writing the Masculine Lesley Sharpe is Professor of German at the University of Exeter. Her principal publications include Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics and The Cambridge Companion to Goethe

Preface


List of Contributors


Introduction


1. Errant Strivings: Goethe, Faust and the Feminist Reader, Gail K. Hart


2. Hospitality and Sexual Difference in Rousseau's Confessions, Judith Still


3. Gender and Genre: Schiller's Drama and Aesthetics, Lesley Sharpe


4. Male Foibles, Female Critique and Narrative Capriciousness: On the Function of Gender in Conceptions of Art and Subjectivity in E.T.A., Hoffmann Ricarda Schmidt


5. Varieties of Female Agency in Stendhal, Ann Jefferson


6. Heine's 'Madchen und Frauen': Women and Emancipation in the Writings of Heinrich Heine, Robert C. Holub


7. Mundus Muliebris: Baudelaire's World of Women, Rosemary Lloyd


8. Flaubert's Cautionary Tales and the Art of the Absolute Mary Orr, Patricia Howe


9. Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History, Jann Matlock


10. Karl Rossmann, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up: The Flight from Manhood in Kafka's Der Verschollene, Elizabeth Boa


11. Andre Gide and the Making of the Perfect Child, Naomi Segal


Postscript


Notes


Bibliography of Secondary Literature


1. General Works


2. Works on Specific Authors


Index