It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read The Virginal Mother in German Culture by Lauren Nossett
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The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the complex social ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother. At the same time, she shows that the literary depictions of virginal mothers correspond to vilified biological mother figures, which point to a perceived threat in the long...
The Virginal Mother in German Culture by Lauren Nossett is 276 pages long, and a total of 70,656 words.
This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 26 minutes to read The Virginal Mother in German Culture aloud.
The Virginal Mother in German Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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