Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German wo

Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike.

While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and Wes

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing an