Answer the following about the literary connections to Otto Weininger’s 1903 book Sex and Character, for 10 points each.
[10e] This playwright claimed that Sex and Character had solved “the woman problem.” The title problem woman in one of his plays is a count’s daughter who flirts with the valet Jean on Midsummer’s Eve.
ANSWER: August Strindberg [or Johan August Strindberg] (That play is Miss Julie.)
[10h] This author’s novella Fräulein Else has been interpreted as a rebuttal to Weininger’s ideas about Jews. A play by this author features ten two-person scenes, each of which has one character who was sexually partnered with a character from the previous scene.
ANSWER: Arthur Schnitzler (That play is La Ronde.)
[10m] Sex and Character claims that this author’s 1813 book On Germany “is probably the greatest book ever produced by a woman.” In a novel by this salonnière, Lord Oswald Nelvil falls in love with the title poet while in Rome.
ANSWER: Madame Germaine de Staël (“stahl”) [or Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein; or Anne-Louise Germaine Necker; prompt on Necker] (That novel is Corinne.)
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