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Article: The Trauma of Defeat: Ricarda Huch's Historiography during the Weimar Republic.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2007
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The Trauma of Defeat: Ricarda Huch's Historiography during the Weimar Republic. By JAMES M. SKIDMORE. (Canadian Studies in German Language and Literature, 50) Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 215 pp. SwF 67; 30.20 [pounds sterling]; 46.20 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-03910-760-5.
Ricarda Huch's fame rests above all on her reputation as the best-known German woman writer of her day and a pioneer of women's university education, and on her eloquent resignation from the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1933. Her actual works, on the other hand, although ground-breaking, have remained in the shadows. She has been left out of many studies of Weimar and modernist literature as her writings do ...