The Cambridge History of German LiteratureHelen Watanabe-O'Kelly Cambridge University Press, 2000 M06 12 - 613 pages This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. 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 literature. A new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography. |
Contents
The Carolingian period and the early Middle Ages 7501100 | 1 |
The high and later Middle Ages 11001450 | 40 |
The early modern period 14501720 | 92 |
The German Enlightenment 17201790 | 147 |
Aesthetic humanism 17901830 | 202 |
Revolution resignation realism 18301890 | 272 |
From Naturalism to National Socialism 18901945 | 327 |
The literature of the German Democratic Republic 19451990 | 393 |
German writing in the West 19451990 | 440 |
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