The woman question in nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature : : (en)gendering barriers / / by Kathryn Ambrose.

• Author: Ambrose, Kathryn.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Brontë or Bell? Identity as Barrier in the Works of Charlotte and Emily Brontë /; George Eliot and the “Superfluous Woman”: A Subtle Means of Protest? /; Women in Theodor Storm: The Opposition of Conformity and ‘Otherness’ /; From Sleeping Beauty to Career Woman: The Development of Women’s Roles in Theodor Fontane /; Turgenev and the Woman Question: Layering Barriers /; Tolstoy, Women and Barriers: Inflexible Closedness? /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; Author Index /; Subject Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004304843
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Kathryn Ambrose.

Kathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid- to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre , Wuthering Heights , Middlemarch , Effi Briest , Fathers and Children and Anna Karenina ) alongside lesser-known works by Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Her exploration of the semiotics of barriers – as opposed to the established approach of the semiotics of space – makes for a rewarding reading of this period of literature and establishes new cross-cultural and literary connections between the three countries.