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Elsa Asenijeff's Is That Love? and Innocence Elsa Asenijeff

Elsa Asenijeff's Is That Love? and Innocence By Elsa Asenijeff

Elsa Asenijeff's Is That Love? and Innocence by Elsa Asenijeff


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First English translations of two early feminist short-story collections, shedding light on the woman question at the turn of the 20th century and relating to today's #MeToo movement.

Elsa Asenijeff's Is That Love? and Innocence Summary

Elsa Asenijeff's Is That Love? and Innocence: A Voice Reclaimed by Elsa Asenijeff

First English translations of two early feminist short-story collections, shedding light on the woman question at the turn of the 20th century and relating to today's #MeToo movement. This edition provides the first English translations of two short-story collections - Is That Love? (1896) and Innocence: A Modern Book for Girls (1901) - by the Austrian writer Elsa Asenijeff (1867-1941). Primarily remembered as the lover and muse of sculptor and painter Max Klinger, in her time Asenijeff was a widely read author. Both books engage with the woman question at the turn of the twentieth century: Asenijeff thematizes the lack of education and professional opportunities for women and girls, critiques the bourgeois family as a site of patriarchal power, and sheds light on systemic sexual violence. Is That Love?, in particular, dismantles dominant narratives of romantic love and marriage. Written while Asenijeff was living in Bulgaria, and set there, the text also engages with that country's political turmoil. In Innocence, Asenijeff relies on some of the traditional characteristics of Madchenliteratur, educational literature for girls, but also subverts its conventions. In their introduction, the translators explicate the sociohistorical background of both texts, arguing for Asenijeff's importance in the history of women's writing in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-speaking world and placing her within the larger context of the contemporary global #MeToo movement.

About Elsa Asenijeff

ELSA ASENIJEFF (1867-1941) was an Austrian writer and partner of Max Klinger. EVA HOFFMANN holds a PhD from the University of Oregon and teaches in Germany. ALEXIS B. SMITH holds a PhD from the University of Oregon and is an assistant professor of German at Hanover College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Is that Love? Short Psychological Tales and Observations Love: A Story from Bulgaria She The Governess: Story from Bulgaria Misery: Episodes from Women's Lives I II III IV The Riddle The Fly Raina Karadjova The Vow Two Moderners What? Innocence: A Modern Book for Girls Introduction Secrets Darkness of the Metropolis Girls' Gossip Marriage At the Folksingers' Alone The Three Sisters Tatjana Lora's Housekeeping Week Mother's Telling a Story! (Two Fairy Tales) Aunt Jola On the Forest Path What Girls Are Not Supposed to Know Girl and Woman (A Chat) Small Child A Fairy Tale School Friends And So Shall We Be Sanctified

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NGR9781640141476
9781640141476
1640141472
Elsa Asenijeff's Is That Love? and Innocence: A Voice Reclaimed by Elsa Asenijeff
New
Hardback
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
2022-09-20
162
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