The Cambridge History of German Literature /

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 th...

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Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Other Authors: Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Summary: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.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (632 pages)
ISBN:9781139054911 (ebook)
DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521434171