Women Against Napoleon

Women Against Napoleon - Historical and Fictional Responses to his Rise and Legacy

Historical and Fictional Responses to his Rise and Legacy
Herausgegeben:Maierhofer, Waltraud; Rösch, Gertrud M.; Bland, Caroline;Mitarbeit:Maierhofer, Waltraud; Bland, Caroline; Arnold-de Simine, Silke; Belnap Jensen, Heather; Beßlich, Barbara; Davidson, Denise

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Produktbeschreibung

Germaine de Staël und Luise von Preußen sind die bekanntesten Gegnerinnen Napoleons. In diesem Band wird gezeigt, wie sie und viele andere Frauen die rücksichtslose Besatzungspolitik und die Feldzüge in Briefen und Tagebüchern, Artikeln und Romanen kritisierten. Der Band bietet damit neue literarische und historische Einblicke in diese wichtige Epoche.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Campus Verlag
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 38414
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9783593384146
• ISBN-10: 3593384140
• Artikelnr.: 22808034

Autorenporträt

W. Maierhofer ist Professorin für deutsche Literatur an der Universität Iowa (USA). G. M. Roesch ist Professorin für Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Universität Heidelberg. Dr. C. Bland ist Dozentin für Germanistik an der Universität Sheffield, England.
Contributions by Silke Arnold-De Simine, Heather Belnap Jensen, Barbara Besslich, Caroline Bland, Denise Davidson, Jennifer Drake Askey, Beatrice Guenther, Deborah Kennedy, Kari Lokke, Waltraud Maierhofer, Dorothy Potter, Gertrud Maria Roesch und Jeffrey L. Sammons

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Women and Women's Writing against NapoleonNapoleon and Women? Women against Napoleon!Waltraud Maierhofer11Contemporaries: With Scepter, Sword, or Pen - Forms of ResistanceEnglishwomen and Napoleon BonaparteDeborah Kennedy39Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples: The "Devil's Grandmother" Fights NapoleonWaltraud Maierhofer57Marseilles to Stockholm - Bonaparte to Bernadotte: The unique life of Désirée ClaryDorothy Potter79Anti-war, Anti-Napoleon: Guardians of Material and Spiritual WelfareFrench Women Respond to NapoleonDenise Z. Davidson95The Liberation from Napoleon as Self-Liberation. The Year 1813 in the Letters of Rahel Varnhagen Gertrud Maria Roesch109Friederike Brun's Briefe aus Rom (1816): Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Politics of "Geistlichkeit" Kari Lokke137Forms of Aesthetics and Cultural-political OppositionDiversionary Tactics: Art Criticism as Political Weapon in Staël's Corinne, ou l'Italie (1807)Heather Belnap Jensen161Rewriting the National Paradigm: Staël's De l'Allemagne (1810) and the "German" Defence of SociabilityBeatrice Guenther187Napoleon, the Museum, and Memory Politics in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's Geschichte der Moden (1829-30) Silke Arnold-de Simine205Belated Nineteenth-century and Twentieth-century Opposition: Lessons of NationalismThe Triumph of Moderation? The "Wars of Liberation" in the Writing of Louise von FrançoisCaroline Bland223Fighting Napoleon - Loving the French. Friedrich Spielhagen, Noblesse oblige (1888)Jeffrey L. Sammons247Growing into a Nation: Queen Luise and the Lessons of Nationalism in Adolescent Fiction for GirlsJennifer Drake Askey265Thwarted Enemy. Eros and Self-Assertion in Gertrud Kolmar's Poem Cycle Napoleon und Marie (1920-21)Barbara Besslich281List of contributors301List of illustrations304Acknowledgements304Introduction: Women and Women's Writing against
Napoleon
Napoleon and Women? Women against Napoleon!
Waltraud Maierhofer11

Contemporaries: With Scepter, Sword, or Pen - Forms of Resistance

Englishwomen and Napoleon Bonaparte
Deborah Kennedy39

Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples: The "Devil's Grandmother" Fights Napoleon
Waltraud Maierhofer57

Marseilles to Stockholm - Bonaparte to Bernadotte: The unique life of Désirée Clary
Dorothy Potter79

Anti-war, Anti-Napoleon: Guardians of Material and
Spiritual Welfare

French Women Respond to Napoleon
Denise Z. Davidson95

The Liberation from Napoleon as Self-Liberation. The Year 1813 in
the Letters of Rahel Varnhagen
Gertrud Maria Roesch109

Friederike Brun's Briefe aus Rom (1816): Cosmopolitanism,
Nationalism, and the Politics of "Geistlichkeit"
Kari Lokke137

Forms of Aesthetics and Cultural-political Opposition

Diversionary Tactics: Art Criticism as Political Weapon in Staël's
Corinne, ou l'Italie (1807)
Heather Belnap Jensen161

Rewriting the National Paradigm: Staël's De l'Allemagne (1810) and the "German" Defence of Sociability
Beatrice Guenther187

Napoleon, the Museum, and Memory Politics in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's Geschichte der Moden (1829-30)
Silke Arnold-de Simine205

Belated Nineteenth-century and Twentieth-century
Opposition: Lessons of Nationalism

The Triumph of Moderation? The "Wars of Liberation" in the
Writing of Louise von François
Caroline Bland223

Fighting Napoleon - Loving the French. Friedrich Spielhagen,
Noblesse oblige (1888)
Jeffrey L. Sammons247

Growing into a Nation: Queen Luise and the Lessons of Nationalism
in Adolescent Fiction for Girls

Jennifer Drake Askey265
Thwarted Enemy. Eros and Self-Assertion in Gertrud Kolmar's Poem Cycle Napoleon und Marie (1920-21)
Barbara Besslich281

List of contributors301
List of illustrations304
Acknowledgements304