Theodor Fontane Mathilde Möhring (Hardback) Women and Gender in German Studies

by Theodor Fontane

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Further Details Title: Mathilde Möhring Condition: New Author: Theodor Fontane Translator: Rachael Huener Contributor: Rachael Huener (Translated by), Helen Chambers (Afterword by) ISBN-10: 1640141774 EAN: 9781640141773 ISBN: 9781640141773 Publisher: Camden House Inc Format: Hardback Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Classic Fiction, Fiction Release Date: 10/10/2023 Description: The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today.Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel Mathilde Möhring because he believed it was too subtle and spare for the popular taste of the day. Published posthumously in 1906, its themes - corrosive economic precarity, the ambivalence of marriage for women, and the burden of work expectations for men - resonate uncannily with readers today. The heroine Mathilde and her mother cling to the underside of the lower middle class by renting out a room in their small Berlin apartment. Their new tenant seems to offer a path to middle-class security, so although marriage is not her first choice, Mathilde applies her shrewd understanding of class mores to pursue it - with results both triumphant and catastrophic.The last among Fontane's powerfully drawn female protagonists, Mathilde is unlike any previous heroine of a German novel: intelligent and energetic but plain and deeply pragmatic. We follow the f

• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
• Year: 2023
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781640141773
• Condition: Fine

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