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Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German Literature »

Authors: Christiane Schönfeld (Editor), Christiane Schvnfeld
ISBN-13: 9781571131980, ISBN-10: 1571131981
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: February 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

The first collection of essays treating exclusively the figure of the prostitute in modern German literature.

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Prostitution, Free Love, and Marriage in German Drama in the 1890s	31
	Frank Wedekind's Prostitutes: A Liberating Re-Creation or Male Recreation?	46
	The "susses Madel" in Fin-de Siecle and Modern Vienna	62
	The Representation of Prostitutes in Literature and Film: Margarete Bohme and G. W. Pabst	77
	Sense and Sentimentality? Margarete Bohme's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen in Context	98
	Streetwalking the Metropolis: Prostitutes in Expressionism	110
	Blonde Satan: Weimar Constructions of the Criminal Femme Fatale	131
	Women of the Street: Prostitution in Bertolt Brecht's Works	153
	The Genesis of "Jenny": Prostitute Songs, the Mythology of Pimps, and the Threepenny Opera	165
	At a Moral Crossroads: Vom Leben getotet and the Regulation of Sexuality in the Weimar Republic	191
	Bibliography	211
	Contributors	251
	Index	253