The Cambridge History of German Literature

A history of German literature to 1990, written from a post-Reunification standpoint.

This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It is a history for our times, and designed for general readers as well as students. Titles and quotations are translated, and there is an extensive bibliography.This book describes German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, take a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also ask 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 prominence is given to writing by women. The book is designed for general readers as well as students and scholars: titles and quotations are translated, and there is an extensive bibliography.