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This volume provides an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of nineteenth-century German literature in the period from the death of Goethe in 1832 to the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. Although the primary focus is on imaginative literature and its genres, there is also substantial discussion of related topics, including music-drama, philosophy, and the social sciences. Literature is considered in its cultural and socio-political context, and the German literary scene takes its place in a wider European perspective. The volume is introduced by essays considering the impact of Romanticism on subsequent literary movements, the effects of major movements and writers of non-German-speaking Europe on the development of German literature, and the impact of politics on the changing cultural scene. The second section of the book presents overviews of the principal movements of the time (Junges Deutschland, Vorm?rz, Biedermeier, Poetic Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Impressionism), and the third section focuses on the major genres of lyric poetry, prose fiction, drama, and music-drama. Among the writers discussed are Heinrich Heine, Georg B?chner, Adalbert Stifter, Franz Grillparzer, Annette von Droste-H?lshoff, Gottfried Keller, Richard Wagner, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gerhart Hauptmann, Theodor Fontane, and Frank Wedekind. The final section of the book provides bibliographical resources in the form of a critical bibliography and list of primary sources. Contributors to the volume are distinguished scholars of German literature, culture, and history from North America and Europe: Andrew Webber, Lilian Furst, Arne Koch, Robert Holub, Gail Finney, Ernst Grabovszki, Benjamin Bennett, Jeffrey Sammons, Thomas Pfau, Christopher Morris, John Pizer, Thomas Spencer. Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Eric Downing is associate professor of German at the same institution.
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Contributors: Andrew Webber, Lilian Furst, Arne Koch, Robert C. Holub, Gail Finney, Ernst Grabovszki, Benjamin Bennett, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Thomas Pfau, Christopher Morris, John Pizer Full set ISBN 1-57113-103-5 The most detailed history of German literature in English CAMDEN HOUSE HISTORY OF GERMAN LITERATURE Vol. 1: Early Germanic Literature and Culture Edited by Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read, University of Stirling, UK Volume 9 Vol. 2: German Literature of the Early Middle Ages Edited by Brian Murdoch, University of Stirling, UK Vol. 3: German Literature of the High Middle Ages Edited by Will Hasty, University of Florida Vol. 4: Early Modern German Literature Edited by Max Reinhart, University of Georgia Vol. 5: German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: The Enlightenment and Sensibility Edited by Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Ohio State University Vol. 6: Literature of the Sturm und Drang Edited by David Hill, University of Birmingham, UK Vol. 7: The Literature of Weimar Classicism Edited by Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania 1832–1899 Eric Downing is associate professor in the Curriculum in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he also teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, with a concentration in German, Greek, and Latin literatures, from the University of California, Berkeley, and began his career at Harvard, where he also taught in both the German and Comparative Literature departments. His areas of concentration in Comparative Literature have been literary theory, aestheticism, realism, and ancient-modern relations; his work in German has been in narrative fiction from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. CAMDEN HOUSE HISTORY OF