Women and Family Life in Early Modern German Literature

by Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre

A study of the discourse of gender in 16th-century German popular literature.

Writers of sixteenth-century German popular literature took great interest in describing, debating, commenting on, and prescribing gender roles, and discourses of gender can be traced in texts of all kinds from this period. This book focuses on popular works by Georg Wickram, Jakob Frey, Martin Montanus, and Johann Fischart, all of whom published novels, joke books,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131973
• ISBN13: 9781571131973
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"