| Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies: Gender and Desire in Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Novels and Paintings Subjects: German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Austrian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Painting German -- 20th century -- Themes motives; Painting Austrian -- 20th century -- Themes motives; Gender identity in literature; ; Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies examines the diverse ways that literary works and paintings can be read as screens onto which new images of masculinity and femininity are cast. Esther Bauer focuses on German and Austrian writers and artists from the 1910s and 1920s --specifically authors Franz Kafka, Vicki Baum, and Thomas Mann, and painters Otto Dix, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele--who gave spectacular expression to shifting trends in male and female social roles and the organization of physical desire and the sexual body. ESTHER K. BAUER is an assistant professor of German at Virginia Tech. |