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Author Hughes, Linda K., author.

Title Victorian women writers and the other Germany : cross-cultural freedoms and female opportunity / Linda K. Hughes
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 138
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 138.
Contents Introduction -- Entree to the 'other' Germany : Anna Jameson, Ottilie von Goethe, and their women's network -- Germany through a female lens : Anna Jameson's writings, 1834-1860 -- Networked families in Germany : Mary Howitt, Anna Mary Howitt, and Elizabeth Gaskell -- An unbeliever in Germany : Marian Evans (George Eliot), 1854-5 -- The Anglo-German fiction of George Eliot and Jessie Fothergill : Daniel Deronda (1876) and The first violin (1878) -- New woman travellers and translators : Michael Field and Amy Levy -- An Anglo-German expatriate-citizen : Elizabeth von Arnim -- Queer borders : Vernon Lee's haunted expatriate writings
Summary "Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that offered a degree of freedom and intellectual agency unheard of in England. Opening with the striking account of Anna Jameson and her friendship with Ottilie von Goethe, Linda K. Hughes shows how cultural differences spurred ten writers' advocacy of progressive ideas and provided fresh materials for publishing careers. Alongside well-known writers -- Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Michael Field, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Vernon Lee -- this study sheds light on the lesser-known writers Mary and Anna Mary Howitt, Jessie Fothergill, and the important Anglo-Jewish lesbian writer Amy Levy. Armed with their knowledge of the German language, each of these women championed an extraordinarily productive openness to cultural exchange and, by approaching Germany through a female lens, imported an alternative, 'other' Germany into English letters"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 13, 2022)
Subject Women authors, English -- 19th century
Women authors, English -- Travel -- Germany
Women authors, English -- Attitudes
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- German influences
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
English literature -- German influences
English literature -- Women authors
Public opinion
Women authors, English
Women authors, English -- Attitudes
Women authors, English -- Travel
SUBJECT Germany -- Foreign public opinion
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022008811
ISBN 9781009072243
1009072242
9781009080040
1009080040