'A Wonderful Mystery of the Beauty': the conceptualization of gender and age in A. Stifter's novella 'Brigitta'

摘要

Novella of famous Austrian author Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) "Brigitta" (1847) is regarded as a work in which two key gender stereotype are disputed, namely the "beauty" and the "youth" as attributes of "femininity".