The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914

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ISBN: 9780199267545 | 0199267545
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/25/2004

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In this broad-ranging study, Richards examines the representation of women's illness in German fiction by women 1770-1914. In the context of medical history, she focuses particularly on female self-starvation and wasting diseases, illustrating how the "wasting heroine" both reinforced and challenged popular notions of female fragility.

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Introduction	1	(19)
1. 'On peut le comparer...à une sorte de maladie': Women and Medicine, 1770-1914	20	(44)
2. 'Die zarte Pflanze welkte hin': Wasting Women in German Fiction by Men, 1770-1914	64	(22)
3. 'Ich sterbe, weil ich dich liebte': Conventional Wasting in Fiction by Women, 1770-1914	86	(27)
4. 'Man stirbt wirklich nicht aus Liebesgram, obschon Ihr Männer dieses gerne glauben möchtet': Alternative Wasting Heroines	113	(33)
5. 'Die bleichen, vom Nichtsthun, von Sehnsucht und Enttäuschung verzehrten Mädchen': Repression and Apathy in Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941)	146	(23)
6. 'Freiheit will ich! körperlose, schrankenlose!': Helene Böhlau (1856-1940), Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919), and the Emancipatory Value of Illness, Food Refusal, and Vegetarianism	169	(25)
Conclusion	194	(6)
Bibliography	200	(19)
Index	219

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The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914

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