Among her extensive writings on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and comparative literature are a comparative study of the nineteenth-century novel, The counter feit idyll: the garden ideal and social reality in nineteenth-century fiction (1984), Women in modern drama: Freud, feminism, and European theater at the turn of the century (1989) and Christa Wolf (1999).
Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension is forthcoming.į I N N E Y is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Davis. Her most recent publication (with Jost Hermand) is Mitden Totenreden: Fragen an Heiner Muller (1999). She has published widely on critical and feminist theory and the litera ture and theatre of the Weimar Republic, exile and the GDR, especially the work of Brecht, Muller, Thomas Brasch, Anna Seghers and Christa Wolf. PT91.C36 1997 830.9-dc20 9 5 - 5 2 4 1 2 CIP ISBN-13 978-7-1 hardback ISBN-10 7-3 hardback ISBN-13 978-3-0 paperback ISBN-10 3-1 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2006ġ The Carolingian period and the early Middle Ages (750-1100) BRIANĢ The high and later Middle Ages (1100-1450) NIGELģ The early modern period (1450-1720) HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLYĤ The German Enlightenment (1720-1790) RUTH-ELLENĥ Aesthetic humanism (1790-1830) N I C H O L A SĦ Revolution, resignation, realism (18 30-1890) GAILħ From Naturalism to National Socialism (1890-1945) RITCHIEĨ The literature of the German Democratic Republic (1945-1990) HELENĩ German writing in the West (1945-1990) M O R A Yį E H E R V A R Y, Professor of German at Ohio State University, is the author of Holderlin and the left: the search for a dialectic of art and life (1977) and was for many years an editor of New German Critique.
German literature - History and criticism. Includes bibliographical references and index. The Cambridge history of German literature / edited by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. First published 1997 First paperback edition 2000 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. The Cambridge History of German Literature Edited by HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY Exeter College,ĬAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © Cambridge University Press 1997 This publication is in copyright. The Cambridge History of German Literature The book is designed for general readers as well as students and scholars: titles and quota tions are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.Ĭambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Contributors, all leading scholars in the field, have re-examined standard judge ments in writing a history for our own times. A new prominence is given to writing by women. It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks 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 liter ature. Now available in paperback, this is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990.
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