A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Author: Jo Catling

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-03-23

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521656283

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This volume makes the wide-ranging work of German women writers visible to a wider audience. It is the first work in English to provide a chronological introduction to and overview of women's writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Extensive guides to further reading and a bibliographical guide to the work of more than 400 women writers form an integral part of the volume, which will be indispensable for students and scholars of German literature, and all those interested in women's and gender studies.

German Encounters with Modernity
German Encounters with Modernity

Author: Katherine Roper

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-08-21

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9004610375

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The novels of Imperial Berlin, a rich repository of social discourse about the simultaneous experiences of nationhood and modernity in Imperial Germany, reveal distinct historical and cultural obstacles impeding authors' attempts to envision a humane, modern German identity.

Encyclopedia of German Literature
Encyclopedia of German Literature

Author: Matthias Konzett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-11

Total Pages: 1159

ISBN-13: 113594122X

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Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945
Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945

Author: William Grange

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-12-18

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0810875195

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The history of this period in German literature is told through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a comprehensive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on poetry, novels, historical narrative, philosophical musings, drama, and the exceptional writers who emerged and shaped German literature over the centuries.

From a Good Family
From a Good Family

Author: Gabriele Reuter

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781571131492

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Upon publication in 1895, Gabriele Reuter's From a Good Family (Aus guter Familie) became something of a cultural event, making its author one of Germany's most talked-about women of letters. Set in the first two decades of the Second German Reich, this story of a Prussian bureaucrat's daughter caught between conformity and rebellion struck at the core of the class that upheld the empire, revealing the hypocrisy and misery at the very heart of the bourgeois family. It recorded the conflicted and ultimately interminable adolescence of a middle-class girl who failed to fulfill the destiny prescribed for her by her gender and class, a young woman who, despite an incipient high-spiritedness and independence of mind, internalized the attitudes of her culture to the point of lethal self-censorship. Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941) began writing in her teens but did not experience a literary and commercial breakthrough until the publication of From a Good Family in 1895. This success enabled her finally to live as a freelance writer. In addition to a string of popular novels she wrote essays and sketches for German and Austrian newspapers; in the 1920s and 1930s she regularly reviewed German books for the New York Times. Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.

Contemporary World Fiction
Contemporary World Fiction

Author: Juris Dilevko

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1598849093

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This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.

American Novelists Since World War II.
American Novelists Since World War II.

Author: James Richard Giles

Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then.

The Polish-German Borderlands
The Polish-German Borderlands

Author: Barbara Paul

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1994-08-30

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0313387931

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This annotated guide to English language materials dealing with all aspects of the history of the borderlands since the 1700s gives special attention to conflicts between Germans and Poles and issues that are again critical in Central Europe. Students, teachers, and scholars will find this bibliography of over 1200 entries to primary sources, books, chapters in books, dissertations, journal articles, government documents, fiction, and films easy to use. The introduction points to different names given to the region and puts the bibliography into historical context. The chapters cover different historical periods and organize material either by genre of work or by topics significant to a particular era. Author, title, and subject indexes make the material easily accessible for a wide variety of research needs.

The British Literary Book Trade, 1700-1820
The British Literary Book Trade, 1700-1820

Author: James K. Bracken

Publisher: Detroit, MI : Gale Research

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Chronicles the period of transition for the British book trade that saw the emergence of some great manes of the trade, but was also a time when publishing firms most often were still controlled by single individuals who made judgments based on literary merit, political alliances and pressures, friendships, or the prospect of high profits.