German Studies

Germany from the Outside

Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement

Edited by Laurie Ruth Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA The development of the German nation-state relied on the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often represent certain core values with which every “German” must identify. Emphasizing current issues of migration, displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging, the essays in this volume explore new opportunities for understanding and shaping community at a time when many are questioning the ability of cultural practices to effect structural change. Located at the nexus of cultural, political, historiographical, and philosophical discourses, this volume studies heterogeneous influences on Germany.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 304 pages HB 9781501375903 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501375910 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501375927 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Weimar in Princeton

Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle

Stanley Corngold, Princeton University, USA This beautiful new book from eminent literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little-known story of Thomas Mann’s early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted émigrés in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its center. The Circle included mostly Germanspeaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler, Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein. Weimar in Princeton portrays a fascinating scene of cultural production and the experiences of an extraordinary group who gathered together to mourn a lost culture and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.

UK April 2022 • US February 2022 • 216 pages PB 9781501386480 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501386497 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501386503 • £18.19 / $24.25 ePdf 9781501386510 • £18.19 / $24.25 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

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Authors and the World

Literary Authorship in Modern Germany

Rebecca Braun, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland How do authors relate to the wider world in which they live and work? What are the mechanisms that make one bestselling author famous well beyond her lifetime while another sinks without trace while still alive? Authors and the World traces how four core modes of authorship have developed and inflect one another in the particular contexts of late 20th- and early 21st-century Germany. It provides not just a radically new approach to German literary history but a new paradigm for thinking about how literary authorship differs by place and draws in different people from across the Western world.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 320 pages HB 9781501391026 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501391033 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501391040 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Grotesque Visions

The Science of Berlin Dada

Thomas O. Haakenson, California College of the Arts, USA Grotesque Visions examines the Berlin Dada artists—such as Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch—who criticized, satirized, and subverted, through their use of the artistic grotesque, the scientific practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century scientists. Demonstrating how pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical scientists went to excessive measures to create professional and public environments in which they could present their research in a seemingly unambiguous way, this volume shows how the practices and responses of Dada artists challenged these forms of supposed scientific objectivity.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781501369940 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501369902 ePub 9781501369919 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501369926 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic