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Einrichtung: Ariadne | Wien
Verfasst von: Richards, Anna
In: Gendering German studies
Jahr: 1997
Sprache: Englisch
Beschreibung:
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century physicians and thinkers emphasised women's physical and moral sensitivity and their subsequent vulnerability to wasting illnesses such as chlorosis. Many heroines of the period, including Sophie in Johann Martin Miller's novel "Siewart, eine Klostergeschichte" (1776) and Mine in Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's "Lebensläufe nach aufsteigender Linie" (1778-81), grow pale and thin and finally die from what seems to be a form of chlorosis as a result of unrequited love, and thus appear to reinforce the contemporary stereotype of female fragility. Viewed in another light, however, a heroine's wasting death can be seen as a rejection of the maternal imperative, associated with bodiliness, which existed alongside the popular image of women's ethereality. In contrast to the widely held contemporary view of the female sex as permanently "receptive" (Moreau, Novalis and others), self-starvation such as that of Ottilie in Goethe's "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" (1809) provides an image of closure and may be read as an act of self-assertion.
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