The Cambridge history of German literature / edited by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 613 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Carolingian period and the early Middle Ages (750-1100) / Brian F. Murdoch

The High and later Middle Ages (1100-1450) / Nigel F. Palmer

The Early modern period (1450-1720) / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

The German enlightenment (1720-1790) / Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

Aesthetic humanism (1790-1830) / Nicholas Saul

Revolution, resignation, realism (1830-1890) / Gail Finney

From Naturalism to National Socialism (1890-1945) / Ritchie Robertson

The literature of the German Democratic Republic (1945-1990) / Helen Feherbary

German writing in the West (1945-1990) / Moray McGowan.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781139054911 (ebook)

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