Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandesâ Comparative Writings

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The aim of the contribution, âSexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandesâ Comparative Writings,â is to examine Brandesâ large-scale emancipation project which combines a comparatist approach with ideas concerning the reform of sexual morality. Although Brandes saw himself as a supporter of the womenâs movement, his work is characterized by a vigorous, masculine way of thinking, declared to be modern. While this led him to support female authors who wrote about what he saw as strong and independent women, he was prejudiced against women who championed the cause of women differently than the way he thought was right. Women writers who either practised what literary scholar Lauren Berlant called âfemale complaintâ or demanded strict sexual morality were anathema to him. To prevent a hasty classification of Brandesâ attitude towards gender issues, the various roles Brandes took in the literary field need to be differentiated. After a short overview of the debate about the emancipation of women before Brandes, the contribution examines Brandesâ role as an early critic and translator of John Stuart Mill, his role as a literary historian with a strong interest in comparative literature, his role in the so-called morality feud in the 1880s, and, finally, Brandes as a literary critic of fiction by contemporary female writers.

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Georg Brandes

A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual

Series:Â Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, Volume: 213Â andÂ Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume: 213

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004682191

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Dec 2023

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