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Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself
Translated by Raleigh Whitinger, Translated by Diana Spokiene
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In Berlin, 1803, readers rushed to their bookstores and libraries to learn more about Countess Charlotte Ursinus, who had murdered several people with poison and was now in prison. To their surprise, Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself turned out to be not an account by this serial killer but a novel, its author anonymous and its pages filled with promiscuous sex, sharp social criticism, and dark humor. In their introduction to the translation, Raleigh Whitinger and Diana Spokiene show how Confessions was written in response to a literary tradition (Richardson, Rousseau, Goethe) and how, in its questioning of the submissive images and roles of women, it anticipates feminist fiction of a century later. Whitinger and Spokiene also review the critical arguments about whether the author was a man or a woman.
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Publisher | Modern Language Association of America
Published date | 30 Jan 2009
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 242
Dimensions | 213 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 500g
ISBN | 978-1-6032-9065-4
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BISAC | non-classifiable
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