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Paper Ge 9

German literature, thought and history from 1815 to 1914

MML Part II

Suggestions for Secondary Reading for Section A Literary Topics in Paper Ge 9

Reference and Context

• Clayton Koelb and Eric Downing, eds, German Literature of the Nineteenth Century 1832-1899. Camden House History of German Literature Vol. 9, 2005
• Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, ed., Cambridge History of German Literature, 1997
• David E. Wellberry etc, eds, A New History of German Literature, 2004

1. Drama: History and Myth

• Mary A. Cicora, Wagner's Ring and German Drama, 1999
• Ian Roe, Introduction to the Major Works of Franz Grillparzer, 1991
• Peter Hutchinson, ed., Landmarks in German Drama, 2002

2. Voice and Vision: Nineteenth-Century Lyric Poetry

• Brigitte Peucker, Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition, 1987
• Carsten Strathausen, The Look of Things. Poetry and Vision around 1900, 2003
• Peter Hutchinson, ed., Landmarks in German Poetry, 2000

3. The Novelle and the Unconscious

• Hannelore Schlaffer, Poetik der Novelle, 1993, esp. pp.79-122
• Andrew Webber, 'Introduction', in Eight German Novellas, trans. Michael Fleming, 1997
• Peter Hutchinson, ed., Landmarks in German Short Prose, 2003

4. The bourgeois Novel

• Russell A. Berman, The Rise of the Modern German Novel, 1986
• Todd Kontje, ed., A Companion to German Realism, 1848-1900, 2002

5. Literature and Revolution

• Nigel Reeves, Heinrich Heine. Poetry and Politics, 1994 (1974)
• Jonathan Sperber, ed., Germany 1800-1870, 2004
• Shlomo Barer, The Doctors of Revolution. 19th-century Thinkers who Changed the World, 2000

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Links to all German papers and comparative papers with a substantial German element

• Paper Ge 1: Introduction to German studies
• Paper Ge 2: Introduction to German history and thought since 1750
• Paper Ge 4: The making of German culture, 1
• Paper Ge 5: Modern German culture (1), 1750 - 1890
• Paper Ge 6: Modern German culture (2), 1890 to the present day
• Paper Ge 7: Introduction to the history of the German language
• Paper Ge 8: German literature, thought and history from 1700 to 1815 (including Goethe's works to 1815)
• Paper Ge 9: German literature, thought and history from 1815 to 1914
• Paper Ge 10: German literature, thought and history since 1910
• Paper Ge 11: Aspects of the history of the German language
• Paper Ge 12: History and identity in Germany, 1750 to the present
• Paper Ge 13: Aspects of German-speaking Europe since 1945
• Paper Ge 14: The making of German culture, 2
• Paper Ge 15: Modern German cultures of performance
• Paper CS 5: The Body
• Paper CS 6: Modern European Film