“I canti esaltino il suo valore”. Gendering the Operatic Sound of the HeroicPages 9 - 24 Anke Charton Download chapter (PDF)
Untangling the Heroic from the Sacrifice. Malwida von Meysenbug’s Attempt to Appropriate a Common Female Topos in and for her Political Novel Phädra (1885)Pages 25 - 38 Birgit Mikus Download chapter (PDF)
Heroes and Anti-Heroes. Reformulating the Heroic at the Accademia degli Apatisti in Seventeenth-Century FlorencePages 39 - 58 Eva Struhal Download chapter (PDF)
The Dramatic Hero in the Gendered Imaginary of Early Modern Germany. Judith and HolofernesPages 59 - 74 Barbara Becker-Cantarino Download chapter (PDF)
Gendering Fear. Heroic Figurations and Fearful Imagination in Restoration DramaPages 75 - 92 Christiane Hansen Download chapter (PDF)
From Viragos to Valkyries. Transformations of the Heroic Warrior Woman in German Literature from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth CenturyPages 93 - 106 Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly Download chapter (PDF)
Creating and Subverting German Models of Galanterie? Heroes and Heroines in Texts by Christian Friedrich Hunold and Maria Aurora von KönigsmarckPages 107 - 124 Madeleine Brook Download chapter (PDF)
Victorian Male Heroes and Romance in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short FictionPages 125 - 136 Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez Download chapter (PDF)
A Melancholy Look from Fearless Eyes. Metamorphoses of a ‘Dangerous’ Heroine of the Romantic PeriodPages 137 - 156 Petra Polláková Download chapter (PDF)
When Heroes Sigh. Sentimental Heroism in Opera Culture Around 1800Pages 157 - 176 Melanie Unseld Download chapter (PDF)
The Reigning Woman as a Heroic Monarch? Maria Theresa Traced as Sovereign, Wife, and MotherPages 177 - 200 Anne-Marie Metzger Download chapter (PDF)
