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Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.

This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture.

Reconsideration of the phenomenon of narcissism in the works of a number of important German writers.

Valuable for its insights into Schiller's life and for Carlyle's peculiar relationship to Schiller and German literature in general.

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

Essays offering new approaches to the debate on orality and literacy, taking in recent developments in modern electronic media.

New studies looking at Herder's contribution to 18th-century intellectual debate in the light of the modern trend towards interdisciplinarity.

Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature.

The first full-length study in English of Heinrich Mann's literary work and political activism.

A fresh view of the interplay of science and literature affecting Musil's great novel.

New study of the revolutionary theatre of the Weimar republic, examining its interplay with socialist and communist politics.

Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.

A study of the rise of the German novel viewed from a feminist standpoint.

Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context.

A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children.

Explores the resurgence of Gnostic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and provides a startling reevaluation of Mann's late novel.

The first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of the important postwar dramatist and short-story writer.

Opens up a fresh and original perspective on Nietzsche by showing the important influence of Weimar classicism on his work.

A comprehensive survey of the renaissance of the German political drama in the years surrounding reunification.

Brings to light unsuspectedly rich sources of humor in the works of prominent nineteenth-century women writers.

First English translation of Moerike's strikingly modern artist-novel of 1832.

Essays examining the rift between British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and its effect on events.

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

Traces the development of ideas of Nuremberg as cultural and spiritual capital, thus offering a coherent view of German cultural and intellectual history.

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.

Pathbreaking examination of the prominent 19th-c. motif with an eye toward literature as social commentary.

First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood.

Essays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s.