Beauty or Beast? : The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in combat.

Women in literature.

Women in art.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature -- History and criticism.

Women and literature--Germany--History.

Women and literature -- Germany -- History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010.

Summary:

A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, in paintings and prints. This book examines representations of the transgressive figure of the woman warrior from Cranach's painting of Judith, to Schiller's Joan of Arc, Wagner's Brünnhilde, and Fritz Lang's Brünhild.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

1. Staking Out the Battlefield

The woman warrior in German culture

Defining the woman warrior

Women write back

Can women be heroes?

2. Amazons: Warriors or Women?

The Amazons in myth

Amazons in the German Renaissance

Amazons at court

Johann Jakob Bachofen's Mother Right (1861)

Penthesilea before Kleist

The death of the Amazon

3. Many Ways To Die: Women Warriors and National Myth

Slav warrior women: the sources

Slav warrior women in nineteenth-century literature

Brünhild, the Germanic warrior maiden

4. Judith: Asking the Big Questions

The gender question

The sex question

The murder question

The question of terrorism: Judith and Charlotte Corday

5. Models for the Men: Heroic Maidens from Schiller to Brecht

Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans

Women warriors against Napoleon

Heroic maidens in German literature up to World War I

The Austrian Maid of Spinges

The end of the Maid of Orleans

6. Un-becoming a Woman: The Woman Warrior as Cross-dresser

The validated virago

The monstrous queen

The indestructible hermaphrodite

Chastity and the warrior woman

Heroism in a skirt

Woman made man

7. Women's Imaginings: Women Warriors in Fiction

Women in early modern wars

Two perspectives on the struggle in the Vendée

Two activists depict the 1848 Revolution

Anti-French propaganda and the conflict over Alsace

8. Women's Voices: Less Beast, More Beauty

Enlightened Amazons

Early twentieth-century Amazons

Utopian visions of the Amazon

Judith from fin de siècle to 1920

Visions of Charlotte Corday from 1804 and 1931

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen Beauty or Beast?

ISBN:

9780191576485

OCLC:

646788791