Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings
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Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings. / Wennerscheid, Sophie.
Georg Brandes: Pioneer of Comparative Literature and Global Public Intellectual.. red. / Jens Bjerring-Hansen; Anders Engberg-Pedersen; Lasse Horne Kjældgaard . Leiden : Brill, 2023. s. 52-80 (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, Bind 213).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings
AU - Wennerscheid, Sophie
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The aim of the contribution, “Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings”, is to examine Brandes’ large-scale emancipation project which combines a comparatist approach with ideas concerning the reform of sexual morality. Although Brandes saw himself as a supporter of the women’s movement, his work is characterized by a vigorous, masculine way of thinking, declared to be modern. While this led him to support female authors who wrote about what he saw as strong and independent women, he was prejudiced against women who championed the cause of women differently than the way he thought was right. Women writers who either practised what literary scholar Lauren Berlant called “female complaint” or demanded strict sexual morality were anathema to him.To prevent a hasty classification of Brandes’ attitude towards gender issues, the various roles Brandes took in the literary field need to be differentiated. After a short overview of the debate about the emancipation of women before Brandes, the contribution examines Brandes’ role as an early critic and translator of John Stuart Mill, his role as a literary historian with a strong interest in comparative literature, his role in the so-called morality feud in the 1880s, and, finally, Brandes as a literary critic of fiction by contemporary female writers.
AB - The aim of the contribution, “Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings”, is to examine Brandes’ large-scale emancipation project which combines a comparatist approach with ideas concerning the reform of sexual morality. Although Brandes saw himself as a supporter of the women’s movement, his work is characterized by a vigorous, masculine way of thinking, declared to be modern. While this led him to support female authors who wrote about what he saw as strong and independent women, he was prejudiced against women who championed the cause of women differently than the way he thought was right. Women writers who either practised what literary scholar Lauren Berlant called “female complaint” or demanded strict sexual morality were anathema to him.To prevent a hasty classification of Brandes’ attitude towards gender issues, the various roles Brandes took in the literary field need to be differentiated. After a short overview of the debate about the emancipation of women before Brandes, the contribution examines Brandes’ role as an early critic and translator of John Stuart Mill, his role as a literary historian with a strong interest in comparative literature, his role in the so-called morality feud in the 1880s, and, finally, Brandes as a literary critic of fiction by contemporary female writers.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Georg Brandes
KW - comparative literature
KW - women writers
KW - sexual morality
KW - sexual morality
KW - Georg Brandes
KW - women writing
U2 - 10.1163/9789004682191_005
DO - 10.1163/9789004682191_005
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-90-04-52603-7
T3 - Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online
SP - 52
EP - 80
BT - Georg Brandes
A2 - Bjerring-Hansen, Jens
A2 - Engberg-Pedersen, Anders
A2 - Horne Kjældgaard , Lasse
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
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