From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Errant Strivings: Goethe, Faust and the Feminist Reader -- Chapter 2: Hospitality and Sexual Difference in Rousseau's Confessions -- Chapter 3: Gender and Genre: Schiller's Drama and Aesthetics -- Chapter 4: Male Foibles, Female Critique and Narrative Capriciousness: On the Function of Gender in Conceptions of Art and Subjectivity in E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Chapter 5: Varieties of Female Agency in Stendhal -- Chapter 6: Heine's 'Mädchen und Frauen': Women and Emancipation in the Writings of Heinrich Heine -- Chapter 7: Mundus Muliebris: Baudelaire's World of Women -- Chapter 8: Flaubert's Cautionary Tales and the Art of the Absolute -- Chapter 9: Manly Men and Womanly Women: Aesthetics and Gender in Fontane's Effi Briest and Der Stechlin -- Chapter 10: Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History -- Chapter 11: Karl Rossmann, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up: The Flight from Manhood in Kafka's Der Verschollene -- Chapter 12: André Gide and the Making of the Perfect Child -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography of Secondary Literature -- 1. General Works -- 2. Works on Specific Authors -- Index -- Back Cover
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