The Cambridge History of German Literature
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The Cambridge History of German Literature by Helen Watanabe-O'kelly
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.
'The reader will gain much valuable information from this bookThe bibliographical section is very good; many chapters bring familiar and less familiar works into sharp focus.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'… the Cambridge History is the best single-volume history of the totality of German literature'. The Times Literary Supplement
'This will be a standard reference book of all German, Swiss German, and Austrian literature. The roster of contributors is very impressive, as is the result.' Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
'… the first complete German literary reference work of its kind covering the most current trends in contemporary literature and criticism into the 1990s, The Cambridge History of German Literature is surprisingly lucid, readable, and accessible to beginning and advanced literary scholars.' BBR Gazette
'… the Cambridge History is the best single-volume history of the totality of German literature'. The Times Literary Supplement
'This will be a standard reference book of all German, Swiss German, and Austrian literature. The roster of contributors is very impressive, as is the result.' Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
'… the first complete German literary reference work of its kind covering the most current trends in contemporary literature and criticism into the 1990s, The Cambridge History of German Literature is surprisingly lucid, readable, and accessible to beginning and advanced literary scholars.' BBR Gazette
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and Professor of German Literature, Oxford. Her publications include Triumphal Shews. Tournaments at German-Speaking Courts in their European Context 1560-1730 (1992), Court Culture in Dresden from Renaissance to Baroque (2002) and The
Cambridge History of German Literature (1997), which she edited, and translations of Friedrich Schiller's On the Naive and Sentimental in Literature (1981) and Adalbert Stifter's Brigitta and Other Tales (1989 and 1994). From 2005-2008 she co-directed the AHRC Major Research Project Representations
of Women and Death in German Literature, Art and Media 1500 to the present. She is editor of German Life and Letters, the foremost UK German studies journal, and of the German early modern journal Daphnis. Zeitschrift fur mittlere deutsche Kultur.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521785730 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521785731 |
| Title | The Cambridge History of German Literature |
| Author | Helen Watanabe O'kelly |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2000-06-12 |
| Number of pages | 632 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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