Re-Interpretations: Seven Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature

by J.P. Stern

Book Overview

This is a reissue of Professor Stern's distinguished study of German prose from the death of Goethe to the heyday of the Wilhelminian Empire. Professor Stern argues that nineteenth-century German prose is characterized by a particular combination of the prophetic and the archaic, of the existential and the parochial, and is only partially and sometimes not at all related to the social and political realities of the age. In this sense, German literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521283663
• ISBN13: 9780521283663
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"