In nineteenth-century Germany, breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challen …

Explores the concept of ‘distant reading’ and its application to the analysis of nineteenth-century German literature and culture, drawing on a range of approaches from the emerging digital humanitie …

The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, …

Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century. Theodor Fontane remains a canonical figure in German litera …

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 …

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period. The cultural formations of the so-called Age …

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period. The cultural formations of the so-called Age …

First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technica …

Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633 94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking world. Privileged by her …

The first critical anthology of major programmatic texts of cultural journalism from the crucial period known in Germany as the Vormärz, the time before the March Revolutions of 1848. Cultural journa …