The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture

Contents

Contents Preface xi Introduction 3 1 Maidens, Barbarians, and Vampires: Nationality and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Czech Literature 19 2 Gender, Form, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Czech Women’s Writing 60 3 Czech Mates: Homosexuality in Czech Modernist Short Fiction, 1917–20 88 4 Between Paris and Moscow: Sexuality and Politics in Interwar Czech Poetry and Film 104 5 Robots, Golems, and Femmes Fatales: The Drama of Karel ¢apek 137 6 Terror and Dream Were My Father and Mother: Postwar Czech Fiction and Film 170 7 “The Unborn”: Postwar Feminist Fiction and Film 200 Notes 227 Bibliography 235 Index 249 ix ...