The Cambridge History of German Literature

By Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521785731
• ISBN13: 9780521785730
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"