Women, emancipation and the German novel 1871-1910: protest fiction in its cultural context - 6

In novels written at the end of the long 19th century, women in Germany and Austria engaged with some of the most pressing social questions of the modern age.

Charlotte Woodford analyses a wide range of such works, many of them largely forgotten, in the context of the contemporary cultural discourses that informed their creation, such as writings on pacifism and socialism, prostitution, birth control and sexually transmitted diseases.