The Cambridge History of German Literature

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Helen 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
Select bibliography
507
Index
584
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