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Unabhängig vom sozialen Status verdienen alle Menschen eine glückliche Liebe. Daran glaubt Hedwig Courths-Mahler und gibt den Mädchen aus benachteiligten Verhältnissen die Chance, das große Los zu ziehen und nach Überwindung aller Schwierigkeiten im Wohlstand zu leben. Die Sammlung besteht aus diesen Liebesromanen: Die Bettelprinzess Annedores Vormund Auf der Jungfernburg Der tolle Hassberg Die schöne Kalifornierin Die Sonne von Lahori Die Stiftssekretärin Frau Majas Glück Gib mich frei Glückshunger Heiligtum des Herzens Heimchen, wie lieb ich dich Hexengold Ich darf' dich nicht lieben Ich glaube an dich Im Buchengrund Lissa geht ins Glück Magdalas Opfer Was tat ich dir Von welcher Art bist du
This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer as " ... a literary historian, who has a sense for the mixture of seriousness and playfulness in literature, who can talk seriously about the play and ironically about the seriousness ... who has at his disposal the most thorough knowledge and never becomes ponderous ... writes easily and gracefully." The art of quoting is traced in Rabelais, Cervantes, and Sterne, followed by the development of these techniques in six major novelists from W...
"In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life dressed however they pleased, defied gender conformity, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a woman. Motyl delves into the ways in which these women inhabited and reshaped the urban landscape of Vienna, an increasingly modern, cosmopolitan city. Specifically, she focuses on how easily overlooked quotidian practices such as loitering outside cafés, striking up conversations with strangers, and taking dogs for walks helped create novel conceptions of gender. Exploring the emergence of a new womanhood, Embodied Histories presents a new account of how the gender, the body, and the city merge with and transform each other, showing how our modes of being are radically intertwined with the spaces we inhabit"--
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This book presents the life stories of three women of the German-speaking realm whose lives inspired the author directly: mathematician Maria Weber Steinberg (1919-2013); journalist Irmgard Rexroth-Kern (1907-1983); and Viennese art historian Fr. Dr. Anna von Spitzmüller (1903-2001). The lives of these three women serve as emotional mirrors to the cultural transformations and tumultuous history of the 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of intellectual European women in this era. Each woman was related to men who played a prominent role in European cultural life, men who received some recognition in history books. As intellectual professionals, these ...
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