Product Description: June J. Hwang s provocative "Lost in Time "explores discourses of timelessness in the works of central figures of German modernity such as Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Helmuth Plessner, as well as those of Alfred Doblin, Joseph Roth, and Hugo Bettauer...read more

Product Description: During the Biedermeier Period, the fine arts continuously expanded their scope, enabling new encounters with their sister arts. This volume assembles a broad range of studies on the intermediality of art and literature between Beethoven and Heine, Goethe and Richard Wagner questioning the preconditions for an intermedial discourse and seeking deiatary links between specific forms of semantization in the individual arts...read more

In "The Making of a Terrorist, "Jeffrey Champlin examines key figures from three canonical texts from the German-language literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Goethe s "Gotz von Berlichingen, "Schiller s "Die Rauber, "and Kleist s "Michael Kohlhaas." Champlin situates these readings within a larger theoretical and historical context, exploring the mechanics, aesthetics, and poetics of terror while explicating the emergence of the terrorist personality in modernity. In engaging and accessible prose, Champlin explores the ethical dimensions of violence and interrogates an ethics of textual violence."

Product Description: This Festschrift in honor of Dennis F. Mahoney’s sixty-fifth birthday is somewhat different from the standard Festschrift: rather than present essays from various authors, this Festschrift collects twenty-one of Mahoney’s most important English-language publications on German Classicism and Romanticism published over the past thirty years...read more

Product Description: Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries revolve around these questions...read more

In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formations through its appropriations in the tumultuous twentieth century.Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends. He thereby produces an intellectual history that will be consequential both to scholars of German literature and to comparatists.

Product Description: Breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace in nineteenth-century Germany led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challenge: how to read it all. In 2000 Franco Moretti sought to address this dilemma with his notion of "distant reading," a rubric that has since come to designate a range of innovative literary analysis approaches with a common focus on the use of techniques from the emerging digital humanities field...read more

Product Description: Winner of the 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for Best Book on Romanticism In Fugitive Objects, Catriona MacLeod examines the question of why sculpture is both intensively discussed and yet rendered immaterial in German literature...read more

Product Description: It has been shown that the total number of women who published in German in the 18th and 19th centuries was approximately 3,500, but even by 1918 only a few of them were known. The reason for this lies in the selection processes to which the authors have been subjected, and it is this selection process that is the focus of the research here presented...read more

Product Description: Metropole, Provinz und Welt bilden in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus ein mehrbezugliches Spannungsfeld. Der Band erkundethistorisch, systematisch, in Fallstudien und vergleichend, wie sich die Werke von Autoren wie Fontane, Raabe, Auerbach, Spielhagen u...read more

Product Description: Hans Eichner belongs to that group of Jewish intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany or Austria in the 1930s and who subsequently exerted a formative influence on German Studies in the English-speaking world. Eichner made a new home in Canada, where he taught first at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and then for many years at the University of Toronto...read more

Product Description: In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement...read more

Product Description: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention...read more

Product Description: This study investigates German and English revolutionary literary discourse between 1819 and 1848/49. Marked by dramatic socioeconomic transformations, this period witnessed a pronounced transnational shift from the concept of political revolution to one of social revolution...read more

Product Description: The publication of Martha B. Helfer’s The Word Unheard: Legacies of Anti-Semitism in German Literature and Culture marks a stunningly original new direction in the interpretation of canonical works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature...read more

Product Description: The domestic sphere, the ideological as well as physical context of female life during the nineteenth century, featured prominently in German women’s writing of the period. Women writers, such as Fanny Lewald, Ida von Hahn-Hahn and E...read more

Product Description: How is the continuity of family enterprises and of aristocratic and bourgeois dynasties ensured? This is the question given close attention in German-language novels at the end of the 19th century in their creation of various genealogical narrative patterns beginning with Gustav Freytag and continued by Theodor Fontane and later by Ricarda Huch and Franz Kafka...read more