{"product_id":"mathilde-mohring-9781640141773","title":"Mathilde Möhring","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rachael Huener | Theodor Fontane | Helen Chambers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Camden House (NY)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel Mathilde M�hring because he believed it was too subtle and spare for the popular taste of the day. Published posthumously in 1906, its themes - corrosive economic precarity, the ambivalence of marriage for women, and the burden of work expectations for men - resonate uncannily with readers today. The heroine Mathilde and her mother cling to the underside of the lower middle class by renting out a room in their small Berlin apartment. Their new tenant seems to offer a path to middle-class security, so although marriage is not her first choice, Mathilde applies her shrewd understanding of class mores to pursue it - with results both triumphant and catastrophic.\u003cbr\u003eThe last among Fontane's powerfully drawn female protagonists, Mathilde is unlike any previous heroine of a German novel: intelligent and energetic but plain and deeply pragmatic. We follow the fearless but flawed Mathilde from the bustling metropolis of Berlin to Woldenstein, a sleepy backwater town she single-handedly transforms, and back. Unknown in the English-speaking world, this compact work has the humor and pathos familiar to readers of Fontane, and is powerfully evocative of the politics of class, gender, and religion in late 19th-century Germany. An introduction, afterword, and extensive endnotes richly contextualize the work for both general readers and students of literature, history, gender studies, and German studies.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46445214859415,"sku":"9781640141773","price":8160.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781640141773.webp?v=1769133271","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mathilde-mohring-9781640141773","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}