Auteur: Sean M. Ireton

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playin …

The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history. Mountains have oc …

Presents Stifter’s multi-faceted oeuvre to both a German Studies and non-specialized Anglophone audience, showing today’s readers the relevance of its concerns. The canonical nineteenth-century Austr …