Women in Modern Drama : : Freud, Feminism, and European Theater at the Turn of the Century / / Gail Finney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Finney, Gail,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

An abundance of rich and memorable female roles is one of the most striking features of turn-of-the-century European drama. Gail Finney traces the source of this phenomenon to large-scale upheavals in prevailing contemporary attitudes toward women. She cites two major developments in particular: the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Woman’s Place at the Turn of the Century: Emancipation or Hysterization?
• Part I. Freud's Double?
• 1. Female Sexuality and Schnitzler’s La Ronde
• Part II. Demythologizing the Femme Fatale, or The Daughter's Education
• Introduction
• 2. The (Wo)Man in the Moon: Wilde’s Salome
• 3. Woman as Spectacle and Commodity: Wedekind’s Lulu Plays
• Part III. The Law of the Father
• 4. “I’ve Lost Him Surely’’: Synge’s Playboy of the Western World
• 5. The Dynamics of Sex and Suffering: Hauptmann’s Rose Bernd
• Part IV. Mothers in Spite of Themselves
• Introduction
• 6. Maternity and Hysteria: Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
• 7. Humanism and Patriarchy: Hofmannsthal’s Woman without a Shadow
• Part V. Motherhood, Power, and Powerlessness
• Introduction
• 8. The New Woman as Madonna; Shaw’s Candida
• 9. The Devil in the House?: Strindberg’s The Father
• Index