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The Cambridge History of German Literature

Series The Cambridge History of German Literature, Volume 1

Edited by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

Publication Date 1997

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521434171

Hardback ISBN-10
0521434173

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521434171

Overview

This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, take a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also ask what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library; it includes, for example, discussions of literature in Latin as well as in German, eighteenth-century letters and popular novels, Nazi literature and radio plays, and modern Swiss and Austrian literature. A prominence is given to writing by women. The book is designed for general readers as well as students and scholars: titles and quotations are translated, and there is an extensive bibliography.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

The Carolingian period and the early Middle Ages (750–1100)
by
Brian O. Murdoch

The high and later Middle Ages (1100–1450)
by
Nigel F. Palmer

The early modern period (1450–1720)
by
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

The German Enlightenment (1720–1790)
by
Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

Aesthetic humanism (1790–1830)
by
Nicholas Saul

Revolution, resignation, realism (1830–1890)
by
Gail Finney

From Naturalism to National Socialism (1890–1945)
by
Ritchie Robertson

The literature of the German Democratic Republic (1945–1990)
by
Helen Fehervary

German writing in the West (1945–1990)
by
Moray Mcgowan

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