Fanny Lewald and Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Femininity.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-04

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Fanny Lewald and Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Femininity. By VANESSA VAN ORNAM. (North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, 29) New York, Bern, and Berlin: Peter Lang. 2002. x + 192 pp. 60 [euro]. 80. ISBN 0-8204-5101-0 (hbk).

Fanny Lewald (1811-89), whose work was very widely read in the nineteenth century, has in recent years been 'rediscovered' by feminist critics. In her study Vanessa van Ornam takes up the argument put forward by such critics that, while in her essays and non-fictional...

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