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The Drama of Divorce: Marriage Crisis and their Resolution in German Drama around 1900

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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.

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  1. Department of German, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland

    Karl Leydecker

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Leydecker, K. The Drama of Divorce: Marriage Crisis and their Resolution in German Drama around 1900. Neophilologus 86, 101–117 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012926711675

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