Beyond the World of Men
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Beyond the World of Men

Women's Fiction at the Czech Fin de Siècle

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Beyond the World of Men

Women's Fiction at the Czech Fin de Siècle

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An inclusive collection of modern Czech short fiction that features overlooked women writers. Bringing together Czech fiction published by women between 1890 and 1910, Beyond the World of Men presents works that confront pivotal issues of the time, including the "woman question" and women's rights, class conflict, lesbian love, and the relationship between the aristocracy and the Czech peasantry (as in two stories originally written in German by the aristocrat Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach). The collection contains stories that are of literary merit, but also hold historical value. In these works, the authors offer trenchant social commentary while injecting both comic and sentimental elements into their writing, employing humanity and subtlety.As a whole, the collection suggests a revision of the critical understanding of Czech literary modernism; these writers represent voices that were not usually heard in the male writing of the period. They also demand evaluation in their differing (but constant) reactions to earlier women's writing in Czech and in other European languages, but particularly that of the central figure of BoĹžena NemcovĂĄ, to whose canonic novel Babicka they constantly return.

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Publisher
Karolinum Press, Charles University
Year
2024
ISBN
9788024656328
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments and Sources
  2. Introduction
  3. HE KISSES YOUR HAND
  4. A KALEIDOSCOPE
  5. CONFIRMED BACHELORS
  6. LIFE’s SORROW
  7. A VISIT TO HIS PARENTS
  8. THE PRÁŽE – A PRAGUE BASTARD
  9. TALE ABOUT NOTHING, NO. 5 (1903)
  10. TALE ABOUT NOTHING, NO. 14
  11. DAILY LIFE
  12. A WIDOW
  13. A ROSE FOR UNCLE: AN UNSERIOUS TALE OF A VERY YOUNG COQUETTE, WITH A MORAL
  14. THEORIES
  15. A TALE FROM HELL
  16. MARRIAGE
  17. A LOYAL WIFE
  18. SOLITUDE
  19. THREE POINTS OF VIEW
  20. … AND MUSIC WILL BE PLAYING OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOWS EVERY DAY!
  21. THE DEATH OF OPHELIA
  22. A TRUTHFUL TALE OF A STONE STATUE
  23. THE CHILD
  24. A THORNY QUESTION
  25. A REMARKABLE INCIDENT
  26. MARIE AND MARTA
  27. Biographical Notes On Authors