Grete Meisel-Hess, the new woman and the sexual crisis, Helga Thorson
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- Modernism (Literature) -- Germany
- Meisel-Hess, Grete, 1879-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation
- German literature + Jewish authors + History and criticism
- German literature + Women authors + History and criticism
- German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Feminist literature -- Germany -- History and criticism
- Women authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography
- Sexology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Grete Meisel-Hess, the new woman and the sexual crisis, Helga Thorson
Language
eng
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Grete Meisel-Hess
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electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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Helga Thorson
Series statement
Women and gender in German studiesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
the new woman and the sexual crisis
Summary
Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and began publishing on sexology and the women's movement. Helga Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New Woman." The book draws on extensive archival research that uncovered a large number of new sources, including an unpublished drama and a variety of documents and letters scattered in collections across Europe. Until now there have been only limited secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on Meisel-Hess in English.--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Introduction: Breaking with the past, forging the future -- The new woman of the early twentieth century -- Feminism and Jewishness in Viennese literary modernism -- Theorizing the sexual crisis through journalism and sexology -- Effecting change through literature : Die Intellektuellen (1911) -- Sexual sociology during the First World War -- Conclusion: Living the sexual crisis
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