Navigating and Owning Obedience: Reassessing Friedrich Halm's Griseldis

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dc.contributor.authorWagner, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-20T16:04:57Z
dc.date.available2021-07-20T16:04:57Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractThis article critically reappraises the drama Griseldis (1835), the successful first play of the today largely forgotten Viennese playwright Friedrich Halm. I argue that the comparison between this play and its possible main source, Petrarch’s A Fable of Wifely Obedience and Devotion, offers insights into the reconceptualization of obedience in the nineteenth century. Concretely, I suggest that the most significant changes in Halm’s version serve to make obedience visible as an expression of individual agency, and thus to justify obedience’s role within a liberal ideology. This reading departs from the older scholarly opinion that saw in Halm’s play simply a critique—rather than a complex reinterpretation—of obedience.en_US
dc.description.grantingagencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)en_US
dc.identifier.citationWagner, M. (2020). Navigating and owning obedience: Reassessing Friedrich Halm's Griseldis. German Studies Review, 43(2), 233-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2020.0042en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2020.0042en_US
dc.identifier.grantnumber430-2017-00401en_US
dc.identifier.issn0149-7952
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/113655
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Culturesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
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dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
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dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 Martin Wagner. This article first appeared in German Studies Review 43:2 (2020), 233-249. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press.en_US
dc.subjectHalm, Friedrich, 1806-1871en_US
dc.subjectGriselda (Legendary character)en_US
dc.titleNavigating and Owning Obedience: Reassessing Friedrich Halm's Griseldisen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
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