TY - BOOK ID - 113584608 TI - Grete Meisel-Hess : the new woman and the sexual crisis PY - 2022 SN - 1800106505 1640141030 PB - Rochester, New York : Camden House, DB - UniCat KW - German literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Austrian Modernism. KW - Berlin. KW - Biography. KW - Early Twentieth Century. KW - Feminism. KW - Feminist Voice. KW - Gender. KW - German Modernism. KW - Grete Meisel-Hess. KW - Jewishness. KW - Literary-cultural Exploration. KW - Modernist Discourse. KW - Race/Ethnicity. KW - Sexuality. KW - Vienna. KW - Women authors, German KW - Feminist literature KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Sexology KW - Women authors KW - Jewish authors KW - History KW - Meisel-Hess, Grete, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113584608 AB - Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and began publishing on sexology and the women's movement. Helga Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New Woman." The book draws on extensive archival research that uncovered a large number of new sources, including an unpublished drama and a variety of documents and letters scattered in collections across Europe. Until now there have been only limited secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on Meisel-Hess in English. ER -