Dr Helen Fronius
Helen Fronius, M.A., D.Phil.
College Lecturer, Keble College & Trinity College
Address: Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG, UK
Email: helen.fronius@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk; helen.fronius@keble.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 272734
Research
Helen Fronius's research interests are in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century German literature and culture. She has published on the role of German women writers in the Goethe era, and is currently editing a volume of collected essays on women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also working on the depiction of infanticide in late eighteenth-century texts.
Teaching
German language and literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
Publications
Editor, with Anna Richards, German Women's Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism (Legenda, due 2010)
'“In einem erleuchteten Jahrhundert”: Enlightenment self-consciousness in the infanticide debate of the 1780s', in: Jahrhundert(w)ende(n). Ästhetische und epochale Transformationen und Kontinuitäten. 1800/1900, Julia Happ (Berlin: LIT-Verlag, due 2009)
Editor, with Anna Linton, Women and Death: Representations of female victims and perpetrators in German culture (1500-2000) (Camden House, 2008)
'Images of Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century Germany', in: Women and Death: Representations of female victims and perpetrators in German culture (1500-2000) , Anna Linton & Helen Fronius (Camden House, 2008)
Women and Literature in the Goethe Era (1770-1820). Determined Dilettantes, Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs (Oxford: OUP, 2007)
'“Nur eine Frau wie ich konnte so ein Werk schreiben”. Reassessing German Women Writers and the Literary Market 1770-1820', in Frauen und der literarische Markt 1780-1918, Elisa Müller-Adams / Caroline Bland (Bielefeld: Aithesis, 2007)
'Der reiche Mann und die arme Frau: German Women Writers and the Eighteenth-Century Literary Market Place', German Life and Letters, LVI (2003), 1-19