Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 583 p)
Edition:
c2008 Cambridge histories online
ISBN:
9781139054911
,
0521434173
Series Statement:
Cambridge Histories Online
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015)
,
The Carolingian period and the early Middle Ages (750-1100)
,
The High and later Middle Ages (1100-1450)
,
The Early modern period (1450-1720)
,
The German enlightenment (1720-1790)
,
Aesthetic humanism (1790-1830)
,
Revolution, resignation, realism (1830-1890)
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From Naturalism to National Socialism (1890-1945)
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The literature of the German Democratic Republic (1945-1990)
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German writing in the West (1945-1990)
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 750-1990
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521434171
Author information:
Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen 1948-
