The Feminine Faust: An Analysis of Ada Christen’s Faustina

Authors

Katherine Lyman, Brigham Young University
Dr. Christian Clement, Brigham Young University

Keywords

feminine, Ada Christen, Faustina, drama, German, women's literature

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

Ada Christen (1839-1901), Viennese feminist, naturalist, and popular poet, published Faustina: Drama in fünf Akten, in 1871. The drama, which was set as a melodramatic version of Goethe’s Faust, did not succeed, and today, Faustina still exists only in library archives (Kord 344). The purpose of my work with Faustina was twofold: to transcribe the text of the play for SOPHIE, BYU’s database of German women’s literature, and then to write a paper analyzing the text.

Recommended Citation

Lyman, Katherine and Clement, Dr. Christian (2013) "The Feminine Faust: An Analysis of Ada Christen’s Faustina," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 864.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/864