American women writers and the Nazis : ethics and politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman

American women writers and the Nazis : ethics and politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman /

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Main Author: Austenfeld, Thomas, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Subjects:
Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980 > Political and social views.
Hellman, Lillian, > 1905-1984 > Political and social views.
Stafford, Jean, > 1915-1979 > Political and social views.
Boyle, Kay, > 1902-1992 > Political and social views.
Boyle, Kay, > 1902-1992.
Hellman, Lillian, > 1905-1984.
Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980.
Stafford, Jean, > 1915-1979.
Geschichte 1930-1950.
1900-1999
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Americans > Europe > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Literature and the war.
National socialism in literature.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > États-Unis > Littérature et guerre.
Nazisme dans la littérature.
American literature.
American literature > Women authors.
Americans.
Literature.
Political and social views.
War and literature.
Women and literature.
Nationalsozialismus
Frauenliteratur
Germany > In literature.
Europe.
Germany.
United States.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Central Europe in the 1930s: how American women writers developed a political ethics
  • Contextual ethics or emotional fidelity: Kay Boyle in the Austrian mountains
  • Winter in Berlin: Katherine Anne Porter's politics of emotion
  • Deep expatriatism: Kay Boyle as Frenchwoman
  • Memories of Heidelberg: Jean Stafford's multiple selves
  • The moral act: Lillian Hellman fights fascists in the parlor
  • Occupying Germany: Kay Boyle and language
  • Anatomies of evil and redemption: contextualizing Porter's politics and Boyle's Germany
  • Women's literature and the ethic of care.

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