Wansink, Susan
Female Victims and Oppressors in Novels by Theodor Fontane and François Mauriac

The study focuses on the female characters in Effi Briest (1895) and Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927) as victims of a rigid, yet degenerating patriarchal society, and on the women in Frau Jenny Treibel (1892) and Genitrix (1924) as possessive dominators. These presentations reveal the injustices and insufficiencies of a social system on the verge of decline, existent in both authors' fictive worlds. 139 Seiten, gebunden (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures; Vol. 53/Peter Lang Verlag 1998) Mängelexemplar/near mint