This volume is an analysis of the development of female heroic subjectivity in relation to an essentially male quest for individuation, the Romantic myth of Faust. It examines the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James and Morgner.
This work studies the female body in contemporary society. Combining anthropology with recent literary theory in the framework of cultural studies, it examines novels by 20th-century authors, Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, Margaret Drabble and Monika Maron.
While the decline of the male hero in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature is usually studied in isolation, Druxes uses a major manifestation of this phenomenon-the failing power of the Faust myth-as an interpretive lens through which to illuminate the corresponding rise in the viability of female Faustian heroes or would-be heroes. Her ...
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This Strange, Old World and Other Book Reviews
by
Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (Editor)
