The drama of divorce: marriage crises and their resolution in German drama around 1900

TY - JOUR

T1 - The drama of divorce

T2 - marriage crises and their resolution in German drama around 1900

AU - Leydecker, Karl

PY - 2002/1

Y1 - 2002/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/52649151331

U2 - 10.1023/A:1012926711675

DO - 10.1023/A:1012926711675

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:52649151331

SN - 0028-2677

VL - 86

SP - 101

EP - 117

JO - Neophilologus

JF - Neophilologus

IS - 1

ER -