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Good Girls, Good Germans (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Professor Jennifer Drake Jennifer Drake Askey
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Description for Good Girls, Good Germans (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Hardcover.
Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls. The age of nationalism in nineteenth-century Germany generally conjures up images of the Prussian military, Fürst Otto von Bismarck, and Hohenzollern kings who welded together a nation out of disparate principalities through war and domestic social policy. Good Girls, Good Germans looks at how girls and young women became "national" during this period by participating in the national community in the home, in state-sponsored Töchterschulen, and in their reading ... Read more
Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls. The age of nationalism in nineteenth-century Germany generally conjures up images of the Prussian military, Fürst Otto von Bismarck, and Hohenzollern kings who welded together a nation out of disparate principalities through war and domestic social policy. Good Girls, Good Germans looks at how girls and young women became "national" during this period by participating in the national community in the home, in state-sponsored Töchterschulen, and in their reading ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135629
SKU
V9781571135629
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Reviews for Good Girls, Good Germans (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Shows that an institutional framework and a wide range of literary offerings existed which aimed to encourage the national identification of girls while also promoting a model of femininity that . . . limited the free, creative space of women . . . . It aimed to educate middle-class women to become the bearers of this patriarchal ideal with nationalist ... Read more