This doctoral thesis will be of interest not only to scholars of German Naturalist drama but equally to all those concerned with the representation of the family and its discontents around the turn of the century. Indeed the title of Leydecker's account errs on the side of modesty, for Sudermann emerges as a wholly emblematic figure in the battleground of Realism and Modernism, and this book is particularly eloquent in its suggestion that there is a crucial general relationship between the thematic questions of marriage and divorce on the one hand, and on the other, efforts to ...

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