01712nam a2200277 i 4500 240053 InACL 20260927132837.0 260927s2000 xxk 0 eng d 9780521785730 0521785731 InACL eng rda InACL 830.9 WAT 23 Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen author The Cambridge history of German literature / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Cambridge, U.K : Cambridge University Press, 2000 614 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. German literature -- History and criticism. German literature History and criticism German literature, history and criticism 633023 633023 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-27 0 830.9 WAT 240053 2026-09-27 13:28:37 2026-09-27 BK