Autobiography by Women in German

Edited by Mererid Puw Davies, Beth Linklater and Gisela Shaw.

This varied and challenging collection of contributions, six of them written in German and ten in English, surveys a wide range of literature in German from a new perspective, namely that of autobiographical writing by women. In sixteen detailed analyses by an international team of scholars the volume explores theories of autobiographical writing and the heterogeneous ways in which texts by women from the Middle Ages onwards have used autobiographical material. The book addresses theoretical issues and thematic complexes as well as uncovering obscured texts and genres, providing both comparative and individual readings of texts as diverse as the spiritual writings of medieval nuns, diaries of the early modern period, and Holocaust memoirs. 310 Seiten, broschiert (Peter Lang Verlag 2000) Mängelexemplar/near mint