Abstract
Whereas in the Realist literary system (c.1850-1890) divorce was a taboo subject, in the 1890s the depiction of marriage crises and their resolution becomes a key topos in German drama. This article identifies a series of conditions which allowed dramatists to present divorce in a positive light in their plays and sheds light on the transition between Realism and Modernism and on the relationship between literary history and social history during this period.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 101-117 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Neophilologus |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 2002 |