HomeSenior Lecturer in German
Fax: (+44) 020 8980 5400
email: p.a.howe@qmul.ac.uk
Areas of specialisation
Nineteenth and early twentieth century literature, especially prose narrative; women’s writing; travel writing in the nineteenth century.
Affiliations
- Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft, Potsdam; convenor
- Theodor Fontane-Kreis Grossbritannien und Irland
Publications
Publications on Theodor Fontane; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Annette von Droste-Hülshoff; Ferdinand von Saar; Stifter; Storm; Schnitzler and other Austrian dramatists; women travellers in the nineteenth century, particularly visitors to London. Including most recently:
- “Women’s Writing 1830-1890”, in: A History of Women’s Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, edited by J.M.Catling, C.U.P., 2000, pp. 88-103
- “Grateful astonishment and faint horror: biographies of Fontane”, in New Comparison, 26, 2000, pp.5-20
- The German Department, in: Bedford College: Memories of 150 years, edited by J. Mordaunt Crook, Royal Holloway and Bedford College, 2001, pp. 181-199
- Patricia Howe and Helen Chambers, Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe, Rodopi: Amsterdam/ Atlanta, GA, 2001.
- “ ‘A visibly appointed stopping-place’: Narrative endings at the end of the century”, in: Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe, edited by Patricia Howe and Helen Chambers, Rodopi: Amsterdam/ Atlanta, GA, 2001, pp.137-151
- “Manly men and womanly women: aesthetics and gender in Effi Briest and Der Stechlin”, in: Mary Orr and Lesley Sharpe (eds.), From Goethe to Gide, Feminism, Aesthetics and the Literary Canon in France and Germany, 1770-1930, Exeter University Press, 2005, pp.129-144
- Forthcoming:
“Saar and Portrait painting: a partial affinity, in: New Directions in Saar Research, edited by Michael Behringer, Vienna: praesens verlag 2006 (in press) - “Generation gap: William Deans Howells’s
Indian Summer and Fontane’s Effi Briest.”
Undergraduate Teaching
- GER/002 - German II
- GER/615 - Introduction to German Literature I
- GER/613 - Das Märchen
- GER/620 -German Narrative Fiction: Text and Film
- GER/079 -Twentieth Century Women’s Writing in German
Postgraduate supervision and examining
I have supervised theses on Gabriele Reuter and Isolde Kurz, Hofmannstha,. Georg Hermann, and shared supervision on Lasker-Schüler and on the Post-1945 novel. I have examined theses on Schnitzler Fontane, Stifter, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, other nineteenth-century women writers, on Xavier Marmier, and on poetry.
