Girls from good families: Tony Buddenbrook and Agathe Heidling

Article Abstract:

Thomas Mann's Tony Buddenbrook stands alongside Reuter's Agathe Heidling and criticizes the social and gender codes enforced by their 'good' families, the very codes that destroyed these women. Each family chronicle traces the negative life trajectory of a girl from a middle-class family, beginning with her education into gender- and class-appropriation roles and ending with a picture of her shattered adult life.

Public affairs, Ethics, Comparative analysis, Ethical aspects, Criticism, Literary criticism, Authors, German, German writers, Fictitious characters, Reuter, Gabriele

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"Gute Augen, ... gute Rasse": zur Aufwertung des Schweizer-Stereotyps in Thomas Manns Spaetwerk

Article Abstract:

The character of Johannes Scheidewein in Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus' is discussed. The idealization of Scheidewein is an exception to Mann's negative stereotyping of the German Swiss and shows his pessimistic view of Germany.

German literature, Doktor Faustus (Book)

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