Title Women in modern drama : Freud, feminism, and European theater at the turn of the century / by Gail Finney

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989

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Description x, 234 pages ; 22 cm Contents Introduction Woman's place at the turn of the century: emancipation or hysterization? -- pt. 1. Freud's double? Female sexuality and Schnitzler's La ronde -- pt. 2. Demythologizing the femme fatale, or the daughter's education The (wo)man in the moon: Wilde's Salomé -- Woman as spectacle and commodity: Wedekind's Lulu plays -- pt. 3. The law of the father "I've lost him surely": Synge's Playboy of the Western world -- The dynamics of sex and suffering: Hauptmann's Rose Bernd -- pt. 4. Mothers in spite of themselves Maternity and hysteria: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler -- Humanism and patriarchy: Hofmannsthal's Woman without a shadow -- pt. 5. Motherhood, power, and powerlessness The new woman as Madonna: Shaw's Candida -- The devil in the house?: Strindberg's The father Analysis Drama in European languages Special subjects: Women - Critical studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject European drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism. European drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Feminism and literature. Psychoanalysis and literature. Psychoanalysis and literature -- Europe. Women in literature. LC no. 88047924 ISBN 0801422841 (alk. paper) 0801499259

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