Books in the Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture series

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 occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering. Contributors: Paul Buchholz, Sean Franzel, Gundolf Graml, Kamaal Haque, Harald Hobusch, Dan Hooley, Sean Ireton, Jennifer Jenkins, Jens Klenner, Martina Kopf, Seth Peabody, Caroline Schaumann, Christoph Weber, Wilfried Wilms. Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).

Analyzes Wolf's, Drewitz's, and Weil's views of individual responsibility in history, with reference to theories of memory and feminist ethics.

A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis.

Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.

Key topics in important German medieval work surveyed and reassessed.

A history of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and of a foundational stage of German orientalism.

Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.

New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.

A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.

New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity.

New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period.

Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works.

A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany.

Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls.

First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists.

New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects.

New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization.

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible.

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode.