Introduction and Acknowledgements
I: Angels of Death - German Culture, Women Warriors, and Heroes
II: Amazons - Warriors or Women?
III: Many Ways to Die - Women Warriors and National Myth
IV: Judith - Asking the Big Questions
V: Death and the Maiden - Heroic Maidens from Schiller to
Brecht
VI: Unbecoming a Woman - the Woman Warrior as Cross-Dresser
VII: Women's Imaginings - Warriors in Fiction
VIII: Women's Voices - the Amazons, Judith, Charlotte Corday
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and
Professor of German Literature, Oxford. Her publications include
Triumphal Shews. Tournaments at German-Speaking Courts in their
European Context 1560-1730 (1992), Court Culture in Dresden from
Renaissance to Baroque (2002) and The Cambridge History of German
Literature (1997), which she edited, and translations of Friedrich
Schiller's On the Naive and Sentimental in
Literature (1981) and Adalbert Stifter's Brigitta and Other Tales
(1989 and 1994). From 2005-2008 she co-directed the AHRC Major
Research Project Representations of Women and Death in German
Literature, Art and Media 1500 to the
present. She is editor of German Life and Letters, the foremost UK
German studies journal, and of the German early modern journal
Daphnis. Zeitschrift für mittlere deutsche Kultur.
this handsomely produced volume offers access to interesting
material
*Susanne Kord, Times Literary Supplement*
erudite, eloquent study
*M. Shafi, Choice*
Covering vast territory - both historically and conceptually - this
study will appeal to a general audience and be of interest to
specialists as well. ... Undoubtedly, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly has
performed a great service by launching this debate in such broad
and yet detailed terms. Her book stimulates and deserves to be
widely read, its arguments further discussed.
*Katherine Goodman, Monatshefte*
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