Mütterlichkeit unter Geliebten und Kameraden. Zeitdiagnosen über Genderkrisen in deutscher und englischer Prosa (1918-1933)
- Submitting institution
-
Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2145
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
-
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress
- ISBN
- 9783847101659
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The extrafamilial significance of maternal practice as nurturance for a self-willed other is discussed controversially. As part of love relationships amongst adults, such practice is chiefly regarded as a symptom for problematic dependence. In this context, the figures of maternal lovers and comrades in German and English literature from 1918 to 1933 appear as classical fantasies of modern gender discourse. West, Brenck Kalischer, Bennett, Lawrence, and Jahnn interpret maternal lovers as signs of a conflict between corporeal vitality and sacralized dependence. Hesse, Raymond, Zweig, Remarque, and Price show maternal comrades as competent war-specific helpers.
