Author: Jeffrey L. Sammons

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an ext …

The book is divided into three parts: an overview of Raabc’s career, his problems with the public, and the early reception history that did so much to damage his reputation; thematic analyses that se …

Schon zu Lebzeiten Heines wurde sein Werk entweder euphorisch in den Himmel gehoben oder abgrundtief verdammt – je nach politischem Standpunkt. Sammons legt eine ausgewogene Übersicht über den Stand …

Mit über hundert Publikationen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur und Kultur prägte Mark Gelber wie kaum ein Zweiter die deutsch-jüdischen Studien. In seinen Arbeiten verbindet er Germanistik, Geistesge …

Focuses critical attention once again on the nature and process of reading, taking into account both current theory and historical investigations. Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to …

Biennial volume of new and innovative essays on German Jewish Studies, featuring forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus. Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studi …

New, specially commissioned essays on representative works of 19th-century German realism. This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist prose from …

New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century. For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and perfor …

Essays examining the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the long 19th century. Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done und …

This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793–1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orle …

In this study of the prose fiction of Das Junge Deutschland, the internal stresses and paradoxes of specific texts are examined and special attention is devoted to the unfulfilled strivings toward re …

New essays providing an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in social and political context. This volume provides an overview of the major movements …

First English translation of Heine’s controversial though masterful polemic, with introduction and commentary. In 1840, Heinrich Heine, the major German poet of Jewish origin of the age, published a …

Volume 12 is dedicated to founding editor Thomas P. Saine, and includes essays on Goethe’s novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller. The Goethe Yearbook, fi …

Essays on the Wilhelm Meister novels, Faust, Goethe’s early plays, Schiller’s Räuber and on Goethe’s thought in relation to current debates on cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality. The Goethe Yearbook …

New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) — an innovat …

An authoritative English translation of Goethe’s classic autobiographical account of war and conquest in the age of revolution In August 1792, Goethe accompanied Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weima …