The Cambridge history of German literature
By: edited by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly.
Contributors: Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 614
Subjects: German literature -- History and criticism.
Other titles: History of German literature
Description: This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990.

It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks 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 new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times.

The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.
Notes: Originally published: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-583) and index.