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From a Good Family

From a Good Family

Reuter, Gabriele
Tatlock, Lynne

Paperback

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 51

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1571134069
ISBN13: 9781571134066
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
First English translation of the famous German novel about a woman's struggle against Victorian social conventions, now in paperback for classroom use.

Upon publication in 1895, Gabriele Reuter's From a Good Family (Aus guter Familie) became something of a cultural event, making its author one of Germany's most talked-about women of letters. Set in the first two decades of the Second German Reich, this story of a Prussian bureaucrat's daughter caught between conformity and rebellion struck at the core of the class that upheld the empire, revealing the hypocrisy and misery at the very heart of the bourgeois family. It recorded the conflicted and ultimately interminable adolescence of a middle-class girl who failed to fulfill the destiny prescribed for her by her gender and class, a young woman who, despite an incipient high-spiritedness and independence of mind, internalized the attitudes of her culture to the point of lethal self-censorship.

Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941) began writing in her teens but did not experience a literary and commercial breakthrough until the publication of From a Good Family in 1895. This success enabled her finally to live as a freelance writer. In addition to a string of popular novels she wrote essays and sketches for German and Austrian newspapers; in the 1920s and 1930s she regularly reviewed German books for the New York Times.

Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanitiesat Washington University in St. Louis.

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