Armed ambiguity [electronic resource] :women warriors in German literature and culture in the age of Goethe / Julie Koser.
By: Koser, Julie [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780810132337; 0810132338.Subject(s): Women -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Women -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 18th century | Femininity in literature | Violence in literature | German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Women in literature -- History -- 19th century | Women in literature -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 830.9/352042 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mythologizing the woman warrior -- The power of the press: eighteenth-century German print culture constructs the woman warrior -- Armed ambiguity personified: the French assassin Charlotte Corday and German ambivalence -- Armed virtue: the woman warrior as defender of the "domestic" good -- Emancipatory fantasies: the woman warrior as liberator and (proto-)feminist -- Treasonous transgressions: a nation of women warriors and the politics of desire.
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