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Author Finney, Gail.

Title Women in modern drama : Freud, feminism, and European theater at the turn of the century / by Gail Finney.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  809.2 F49    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  809.2 FINNEY    Check Shelf
Description x, 234 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Woman's place at the turn of the century: emancipation or hysterization? -- pt. 1. Freud's double?: Female sexuality and Schnitzler's La ronde -- pt. 2. Demythologizing the femme fatale, or the daughter's education: The (wo)man in the moon: Wilde's Salomé -- Woman as spectacle and commodity: Wedekind's Lulu plays -- pt. 3. The law of the father: "I've lost him surely": Synge's Playboy of the Western world -- The dynamics of sex and suffering: Hauptmann's Rose Bernd -- pt. 4. Mothers in spite of themselves: Maternity and hysteria: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler -- Humanism and patriarchy: Hofmannsthal's Woman without a shadow -- pt. 5. Motherhood, power, and powerlessness: The new woman as Madonna: Shaw's Candida -- The devil in the house?: Strindberg's The father.
Subject Women in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Feminism and literature.
European drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
European drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Indexed Term Drama in European languages Special subjects: Women - Critical studies
ISBN 0801422841 alkaline paper
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