TY - BOOK AU - Watanabe-O'Kelly,Helen TI - The Cambridge history of German literature SN - 9780521785730 U1 - 830.9 23 PY - 2000/// CY - Cambridge, U.K PB - Cambridge University Press KW - German literature -- History and criticism KW - German literature KW - History and criticism KW - German literature, history and criticism N2 - 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 ER -