Article: Die Schwestern des Doktor Faust: Eine Geschichte der weiblichen Faustgestalten.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Die Schwestern des Doktor Faust: Eine Geschichte der weiblichen Faustgestalten. By SABINE DOERING. Gottingen: Wallstein. 2001. 371 pp. 44 [euro]. ISBN 3-89244-399-8.

This is a history of female Faust figures, mainly in German literature, although examples are detected and reviewed in other European texts too. Sabine Doering speculates plausibly that this has been a blind spot in literary criticism because Faust specialists are not interested in women and feminist critics are not interested in Faust. Using the tools of gender history and New Historicism, Doering uncovers and documents an unsuspected body of works from the first recorded mention of a 'weiblicher Faust' ...

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