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In examining Schiller's often-neglected use of gesture, this study treats his dramas as written to be performed -- not merely read.

Essays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s.

New essays providing innovative ways of understanding the altered position of media in Germany and beyond.

First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood.

Pathbreaking examination of the prominent 19th-c. motif with an eye toward literature as social commentary.

Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.

Focuses on the literary implications of 17th-century religion, Shakespeare's Roman plays, and 16th-century poetry.

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

Volume focusing on a multitude of incarnations and meanings of "masculinity" in German culture from medieval times to the present.

Traces the development of ideas of Nuremberg as cultural and spiritual capital, thus offering a coherent view of German cultural and intellectual history.

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

Essays examining the rift between British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and its effect on events.

Brings to light unsuspectedly rich sources of humor in the works of prominent nineteenth-century women writers.

First English translation of Moerike's strikingly modern artist-novel of 1832.

A comprehensive survey of the renaissance of the German political drama in the years surrounding reunification.

Opens up a fresh and original perspective on Nietzsche by showing the important influence of Weimar classicism on his work.

The first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of the important postwar dramatist and short-story writer.

New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.

New readings of a number of Goethe's works, book reviews, and a listing of North American Goethe dissertations 1989-1999.

The first thorough study in English of the reception of Doeblin's novels, written by one of the foremost Doeblin scholars.

Explores the resurgence of Gnostic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and provides a startling reevaluation of Mann's late novel.

A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children.

Essays on key aspects of Romanticism, viewed in a wider European context.

A study of the rise of the German novel viewed from a feminist standpoint.

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.

A history of the most important scholarly criticism of Emerson from his time down to the present.

Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal commentator in Western discourse on the Orient.

New study of the revolutionary theatre of the Weimar republic, examining its interplay with socialist and communist politics.

A fresh view of the interplay of science and literature affecting Musil's great novel.

The first full-length study in English of Heinrich Mann's literary work and political activism.