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| Format | Dissertation |
|---|---|
| Creator | Stuecher, Dorothea Diver |
| Title | Double Jeopardy: Nineteenth Century German American Women Writers. Dissertation |
| Dissertation Note (type -- academic institution) | University of Minnesota |
| Date | 1981 |
| Extent of Work | 275 pp. |
| Abstract | INTRODUCTION (Abbreviated): German American literature is not the only immigrant literary tradition to take root in America, but in the nineteenth century, it represented the earliest and largest non-English corpus of works produced in the New World. Struck by the fact that the greatest period of growth for German American literature (ca. 1850-1890), coincided with the rapid rise of female authors in both Germany and America, I became curious about women's fictional expression of the immigrant experience. The hypothesis which I intitially formed appeared on a probable one: female immigrants, leaving a culture which was proving more and more amenable to women's participation in literary activity, and entering a culture in which female authors were experiencing a heyday, were assumed to have capitalized on these new opportunities, creating an influential role for themselves as writers within the German American community. This hypothesis, however, proved premature, as research revealed a surprising paucity of German immigrant women writers. New questions were thus raised which took me beyond my original interest in these women's literature: Why were there so few female immigrant writers? Why is it so difficult to establish their identities? What was their relationship to immigrant literature? How were they viewed by the immigrant community? Why did they write so little? The following study traces my steps in establishing answers to these and other questions which developed in my search to determine the relationship between the immigrant experience and women writers. Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/Robinson, Therese, 1797-1870/Sutro-Schuecking, Kathinka, 1831(35?)-1893 |
| Notes | UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat. |
| Call Number | MKI PT3907 S78 1981a; shelved with MKI dissertations |
| MKI Terms | Literature, German-American/ Women authors/ Literary criticism/ 19th century/ Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884 |