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Kurt Eisner

The first comprehensive biography in English

The Shark He Has Teeth

A Theater Producer’s Notes

Mystical Islam

Spirituality and cosmopolitanism in German Muslim writing

Wilhelm Furtwängler

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A pathbreaking biography of the renowned composerconductor

C ONTE NT S Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism GERMANA Approaches to Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino NIEKERK & CRANE Arno Schmidt’s Zettel’s Traum LANGBEHN Blue Stain BET TAUER Brahms and his Poets LO GES Brahms and the Shaping of Time MURPHY Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature GEZEN Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 41 RIPPEY Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 42 KUHN, BARNET T & RIPPEY Business Rhetoric in German Novels Schonfield Cameralism in Practice SEPPEL & TRIBE Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass THESZ Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin GOEBEL Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 Hales, Petrescu & Weinstein Creating Der Rosenkavalier REYNOLDS Critical History of German Film BRO CKMANN Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis MAGUB Edinburgh German Yearbook 10 DAWSON Edinburgh German Yearbook 11 SCHMITZ & DAVIES Gender and Sexuality in East German Film FRACKMAN & STEWART German Jewish Literature after 1990 GARLOFF & MUELLER German Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century Baer & Hill Goethe Yearbook 24 DAUB & KRIMMER Goethe Yearbook 25 DAUB & KRIMMER Heiner Müller’s Democratic Theater WO OD Kafka after Kafka BRUCE & GELBER Kurt Eisner GURGANUS Life without End GUTHKE Long Shadow of the Past KRYLOVA Magnetic North VENCLOVA & HINSEY Montage as Perceptual Experience SLUGAN Music in Goethe’s Faust BYRNE B ODLEY Music into Fiction ZIOLKOWSKI Music in Vienna JONES Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature T WIST Nexus 3 D ONAHUE & HELFER Nexus 4 Kagel Reformation and the German Territorial State SMITH Romantic Rapports PEER & CLASON Shark He Has Teeth AUFRICHT, BLO CH, SILBERMAN “The Space of Words” HOYER Stefan Zweig and World Literature VANWESENBEECK & GELBER Suicide in East German Literature BLANKENSHIP Tatort Germany Kutch & Herzog Virtual Walls? LYS & DREYER Wilhelm Furtwängler ALLEN Willful Girls JEREMIAH Witness between Languages DAVIES Witnessing Romania’s Century of Turmoil MARGINEANU, COTOIU, DELETANT Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature STONE Wounded Self SCHMIDT Writing in Red GOLDSTEIN Writing to Change the World JANZEN

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Front cover: Cover image: Woodcut of Kurt Eisner by Fritz Schaefler (1919), collection of Albert E. Gurganus, author of Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life (see page 3).

Originally published in the Expressionist journal Der Weg in 1919 (vol. 1, no. 3). The woodcut block and prints made from it were given as a gift by Schaefler to Eisner’s granddaughter Freya Eisner, who in turn gave one of the prints to Gurganus.

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A Modern Life

ALBERT EARLE G URG A N US

The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.

At the end of the First World War, German Jewish journalist, theater critic, and political activist Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), just released from prison, led a nonviolent revolution in Munich that deposed the monarchy and established the Bavarian Republic. Local head of the Independent Socialists, Eisner had been jailed for treason after organizing a munitions workers’ strike to force an armistice. For a hundred days, as Germany spiraled into civil war, Eisner fought as head of state to preserve calm while implementing a peaceful transition to democracy and re-forging international relations. He rejected another central German government dominated by Prussia in favor of a confederation of autonomous equals, a “United States of Germany.” A Francophile, he sought ties with Paris in hope of containing Prussia. In February 1919, on the way to submit his government’s resignation to the newly elected constitutional assembly, Eisner was shot by a protofascist aristocrat, plunging Bavaria into political chaos from which Adolf Hitler would emerge. At the centenary of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, this is the first comprehensive biography of Eisner written for an English-language audience.

Albert E. Gurganus is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at The Citadel. He is the author of The Art of Revolution: Kurt Eisner’s Agitprop (Camden House, 1986). $59.95/£45.00(s) April 2018 978 1 64014 015 8, 25 b/w illus.; 600pp, 9 x 6, HB German History in Context

A Theater Producer’s Notes

ERNST JOSEF AUFRICHT, Translated by BE NJAM I N BLO CH Introduction by M ARC SI L BE RM AN

First English translation of the memoirs of the vaunted theater producer Aufricht, providing an inside account of the late Weimar theater scene in Berlin and much else of interest.

This is the first English translation of the memoirs of the great German-Jewish theater producer Ernst Josef Aufricht (in German 1966, rpt. 1998). The title alludes to Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera, the premiere of which was produced by Aufricht at his Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin in 1928, launching Brecht and Weill to worldwide fame.

Aufricht’s book is most notable for its insider’s account of the Berlin theater scene from the great days of the late 1920s and early 30s. Its range, however, from school years and the military to his time as an actor and then producer, the rise of the Nazis, and finally long years of exile in france and America, gives the picture of a complex individual with a talent for survival and a winningly understated sense of humor.

The book will be of interest to an academic audience, but its reflections on a period of momentous artistic and political events will expand its appeal to a wider group: those interested in twentieth-century German history, music and theater history, as well as the general reader.

BENJAMIN BLOCH is a clinical psychologist who grew up speaking German at home with his native German father and studied German and English Literature at Oberlin College. MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. $39.95/£30.00(s) April 2018 978 1 64014 017 2, 15 b/w illus.; 264pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature

Openness to Alterity JOSEPH T WI ST

Highlights the spirituality and cosmopolitanism of four contemporary German Muslim writers, showing that they undermine the “clash-of-civilizations” narrative and open up space for new ways of coexisting.

At a time when the place of Muslims in German society is being disputed, this book explores how four contemporary German writers of Muslim backgrounds-Zafer Senocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Navid Kermani-point beyond identity politics and suggest new ways of thinking about religion and community.

Twist highlights both the spirituality and the cosmopolitanism of these authors, bringing their thought into dialogue with the work of Jean-Luc Nancy.

Nancy is critical of communities based on a single guiding principle (be it God or Reason) and thus involving a universalizing core that leads to conflicts between identity groups. He proposes alternative notions of both religious faith (a post-monotheistic version with elements of mysticism) and community (spontaneous communities requiring no shared identity). Twist relates these arguments to post-9/11 debates over cosmopolitanism and religion, illuminating how the writers under study draw upon mystical Islam’s deconstructive potential, finding divine insight in love, sex, music, pain and beauty. Such a worldly and affective spirituality dispels associations between Islam and sexual conservatism while rejecting monotheistic ideology. Thus, unlike the homogenizing drive of universalist cosmopolitanism, these writers’ non-foundational conceptualizations undermine the twenty-first century’s “clash-of-civilizations” narrative and open up space for new ways of coexisting.

Joseph Twist is Fixed-Term Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. $85.00/£65.00(s) January 2018 978 1 64014 010 3, 216pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Suicide in East German Literature

fiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-destruction of Literary Heritage ROBERT BL AN KE NSHI P

This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR and the literariness of its literature.

The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood.

The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GdR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GdR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GdR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies.

Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GdR. Blankenship’s underlying claim is that GdR literature ought to be read as literature, with literary methodology, not despite the country’s politically and rhetorically charged nature, but precisely because of it. Suicide in East German Literature will be of interest to scholars of GdR literature, humanities-oriented scholars of suicide, and those who are interested in the complex relationship between literature and history.

ROBERT BLANKENSHIP is Assistant Professor of German at California State University, Long Beach. $90.00/£75.00(s) August 2017 978 1 57113 574 2, Library e-book 978 1 78744 059 3, 202pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany

Edited by FR ANZI SKA LYS & MIC HAEL DREYER This volume analyzes the cultural transformation – or lack thereof – that has followed the political unification of East and West Germany. The contributions are interdisciplinary: essays on history and politics provide a framework and others on art, film, literature, museums, music, and education provide specific examples. These case studies allow us to assess the state of unification beyond statistics, opinion polls, and glib generalizations.

The result is a reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Franziska Lys is Professor of German at Northwestern University. Michael Dreyer is

Professor in the Institute for Political Science at the University of Jena.

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Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity

KATHERI NE STON E In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism. In mainstream culture, however, women of the period are still predominantly depicted as the victims of a violent twentieth century whose atrocities were committed by men.

This book investigates why the question of women’s complicity in the Third Reich has struggled to capture the historical imagination. It explores how female authors from across the political and generational spectrum (Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Elisabeth Plessen, Gisela Elsner, Tanja Dückers, Jenny Erpenbeck) conceptualize the role of women in the Third Reich.

Katherine Stone is Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick. $85.00/£65.00(s) October 2017 978 1 57113 994 8 Library e-book 978 1 78744 101 9 Personal e-book 978 1 78744 108 8 242pp, 9 x 6, HB Women and Gender in German Studies

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The Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism

N IC HOL AS A. GE RM ANA Against traditional understandings of the origins and functions of German orientalism, in this book Nicholas Germana sees it as an effort to come to grips with the Other within German society and within the dynamics of subjectivity itself. Uncovering an anxiety at the core of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and shedding light on its derogation (or elevation) of Oriental cultures, Germana’s book emphasizes aesthetics in the German orientalist discourse, a subject that has received little attention to date.

Nicholas A. Germana is Professor of History at Keene State College, New Hampshire. $95.00/£75.00(s) September 2017 978 1 64014 002 8 Library e-book 978 1 78744 060 9 278pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Cameralism in Practice

State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe Edited by M ART E N SE PPE L & KE I T H T RI BE

The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon.

This volume demonstrates that, besides Germany and Austria, the cameralist conception of state and economy – a form of ‘science’ of government, dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic development, and often associated mainly with Prussia – had significant impact far beyond the German heartlands. In fact, its influence spread into Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Portugal, Northern Italy and other parts of Europe.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com MARTEN SEPPEL is Associate Professor of Early

Modern History at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

KEITH TRIBE has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and taught at the University of Keele. $90.00/£25.00 October 2017 978 1 78327 228 0 2 b/w illus.; 328pp, 23.4 x 15.6, PB People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History

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Writing in Red

The East German Writers Union and the Role of Literary Intellectuals

T HOM AS W. GOL D ST E I N In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED party created a Writers Union to mold what writers publicly wrote and said, and to create a socialist and antifascist culture. But it was also supposed to enable its members to have a say in the direction of socialism. Many writers demanded that it pursue this second function, bringing it into conflict with the SED. This book explores how the union became a site for the contestation of writers’ roles in GDR society with consequences well beyond the literary community.

Thomas W. Goldstein is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Missouri. $90.00/£75.00(s) November 2017 978 1 57113 920 7 368pp, 9 x 6, HB German History in Context

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Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis A Political Biography

RO SHAN M AGU B By his death in 1934, Edgar Julius Jung was well known as an ideologue of the so-called Conservative Revolution and as a right-wing opponent of the Nazis. Considered by Goebbels to be one of the regime’s worst enemies, Jung was assassinated by them in June 1934. Jung was long neglected by historians after the war due to his strongly antidemocratic stance: there have been several studies on his political thought, but this is the first biography in German or English. Roshan Magub’s book therefore fills a serious gap in German historical literature.

Roshan Magub holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. $90.00/£75.00(s) January 2017 978 1 57113 966 5 Library e-book 978 1 78204 913 5 Personal e-book 978 1 78204 927 2 4 b/w illus.; 308pp, 9 x 6, HB German History in Context

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Witnessing Romania’s Century of Turmoil

Willful Girls

N IC OL AE MARGIN EA N U Translated by CALIN C OTOIU Edited by DENNI S DEL ETA N T Nicolae Margineanu began his life in 1905 under AustroHungarian rule, was witness to the 1918 Union, lived under three kings, and survived all of Romania’s dictatorships.

Margineanu studied psychology in Romania and abroad, later becoming chair of the psychology department of the University of Cluj. In 1948, he was arrested and served sixteen years in prison, passing through the jails at Malmaison, Jilava, Pitesti, Aiud, and Gherla.

His autobiography is a shocking testimony to the fate of the intellectual elite of Romania during the Communist dictatorship.

Calin Cotoiu is a translator based in Bucharest, Romania. Dennis Deletant is Visiting Ratiu Professor of Romanian Studies, Georgetown University.

EMILY J E RE M IAH What does it mean to “become woman” in the context of neoliberalism and postfeminism?

What is the role of will in this process? Willful Girls explores these questions through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts. It identifies four sets of concerns key for scholars interested in gendered subject formation: agency and volition; body and beauty; sisterhood and identification; and sex and desire.

The book argues for the potential of willfulness to assert and develop female agency.

Emily Jeremiah is Senior Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Memoirs of a Political Prisoner

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Magnetic North

Conversations with Tomas Venclova

TOMAS V ENC LOVA & EL L EN HIN SEY This book interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature.

Venclova, who personally knew Akhmatova, Pasternak, Milosz, Brodsky, and many others, was also one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. Magnetic North provides an in-depth account of ethical choices and artistic resistance to totalitarianism over a half century. It also details Venclova’s artistic work expanding our understanding of the significance of this writer, whose books are central to contemporary European culture.

Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian poet, writer, scholar, and translator. He is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

Ellen Hinsey is the author of numerous works of poetry, essay, and literary translation.

Gender and Agency in Contemporary Anglo-American and German Fiction

$90.00/£75.00(s) January 2018 978 1 64014 008 0 210pp, 9 x 6, HB Women and Gender in German Studies

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Writing to Change the World Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century

MA RI K E JANZ E N In the twentieth century, leftist authors around the world understood their writing as an act of solidarity, but their common project was obscured by the end of the Cold War. This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an exemplar and reading her alongside prominent contemporaries. Writing to Change the World argues for the continued significance of solidarity both as a model of global authorship and as a framework for analysis of world literature. In doing so, it refocuses attention on global structures of inequality and collective imaginings of a better world.

Marike Janzen is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas.

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The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass Stages of Speech, 1959-2015

NIC OL E A. T H E S Z The Nobel-laureate novelist and public intellectual Günter Grass was foremost among German fiction writers and social/ political critics from the 1950s until his death in 2015. Known throughout the world for his many novels, especially The Tin Drum (1959), he assumed the role of the conscience of the German nation-and arguably held it despite controversy such as occasioned by his belated revelation in 2006 of his brief membership in the SS. This monograph will be a major contribution to the scholarship on Grass, since it looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.

Nicole Thesz is Associate Professor of German at Miami University, Ohio. $90.00/£75.00(s) February 2018 978 1 57113 956 6 300pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The Wounded Self

Writing Illness in Twenty-First Century German Literature

NI NA S C H M I DT There has been a new wave in German lands – intensifying since 2007 – of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt’s book takes such writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliché and exceptionality. The book makes suggestions as to how to better read such narratives from the stance of literary scholarship, then demonstrates the value of a literary disability studies approach to such writing with close readings of five works.

Nina Schmidt is a postdoctoral researcher in the Friedrich Schlegel School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. $90.00/£75.00(s) June 2018 978 1 64014 016 5 278pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The Long Shadow of the Past

Witness between Languages

Life without End

KAT YA KRYLOVA Austria is still coming to terms with its National Socialist past.

Only over the past thirty years, beginning with the Waldheim affair of 1986-1988, has the country’s view of its role during the Third Reich shifted from that of victimhood to complicity.

Austria’s writers, filmmakers, and artists have been at the center of this process, holding up a mirror to the country’s present and drawing attention to a still disturbing past. Katya Krylova’s book undertakes close readings of key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust.

Nicole Thesz is Associate Professor of German at Miami University, Ohio.

PETE R DAVI E S A growing body of scholarship is making visible the contribution of translators to knowledge about the Holocaust, but the need remains for a positive, concrete, and contextually aware approach that acknowledges the achievements of translators of Holocaust testimonies while being sensitive to the consequences of particular translation strategies.

Peter Davies’s study understands translators as active co-creators whose work does not simply mediate a pre-existing text but creates a representation of that text for a new readership in a specific context. Davies shows how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated.

Peter Davies is Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh. He is the General Editor of Edinburgh German Yearbook.

KARL S . GU T H K E Earthly immortality has a tradition in literature dating to the Gilgamesh epic. But what would it mean to attain such immortality? Answers are suggested in novels and plays that explore the theme using varieties of Borges’s “rational imagination,” often in connection with projections of biology or cybernetics. In this groundbreaking study, Karl S. Guthke examines key works in this vein, throwing into relief fascinating instances of human self-awareness across the last three hundred years.

Karl S. Guthke is the Kuno Francke Professor of Germanic Art and Culture, Emeritus, of Harvard University.

Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture

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The Translation of Holocaust Testimonies in Context

$90.00/£75.00(s) April 2018 978 1 64014 029 5 272pp, 9 x 6, HB Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought

Queering German Culture

Edited by LEANNE DAWS ON Contributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBTQ individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture.

Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh. $85.00/£65.00(s) February 2018 978 1 57113 965 8, 224pp, 9 x 6, HB Edinburgh German Yearbook

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Love, Eros, and Desire in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture

Edited by HELMUT S C H M ITZ & PETER DAV I ES New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic relationships and love in German literature since around the turn of the millennium.

Helmut Schmitz is Reader in German at the University of Warwick. Peter Davies is Professor and Head of German at the University of Edinburgh.

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Romantic Rapports

New Essays on Romanticism across the Disciplines

Edited by L ARRY H . PE E R & C H RI STOPH E R R . C L AS ON Romanticism bubbled up as lava from such historical eruptions as the Napoleonic Wars. The power of its flow across disciplines and linguistic borders reminds us that the use of the term in a context limited to one linguistic, national, or political tradition, or to one discipline or area of human development, shows an essential ignorance of the ideational configurations it elaborated and lived out. This book brings together essays that highlight the inclusivity of Romanticism, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement.

Larry H. Peer is Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University.

Christopher R. Clason is Professor of German at Oakland University.

A Thought Experiment in Literature from Swift to Houellebecq

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Business Rhetoric in German Novels

From Buddenbrooks to the Global Corporation

E rnest S chonfiel d Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its position as one of the world’s largest economies. What are the cultural implications of this, and how is business depicted in the literature of this period?

This book is a study of the representation of business practices in nine German-language novels from the period 1901 to 2013 that are informed by a sense of the close connections between economics and politics and an awareness of how language is used rhetorically in pursuit of economic and political agendas.

Ernest Schonfield is Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. $85.00/£65.00(s) June 2018 978 1 57113 983 2 256pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Approaches to Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino

Love, Identity, and Intercultural Conflict

Edited by CARL NIEKERK & C ORI CR ANE Ali and Nino is a novel published in German in 1937, a love story between a Muslim and a Christian set in Baku, Azerbaijan. A major success, it was forgotten by the end of World War II. Recent revelations about the book’s authorship have spurred renewed interest, as has the fact that it prefigures today’s perceived conflicts between Islam and Christianity but also suggests a more peaceful model of intercultural living in multiethnic Baku, a melting pot of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

The essays in this volume showcase the suitability of Ali and Nino for a curriculum focused on German, world literature, or area studies, and suggest a variety of approaches to the novel while also appealing to its fans.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Carl Niekerk is Professor of German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cori Crane is Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Language Program in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University. $90.00/£75.00(s) June 2017 978 1 57113 990 0 Library e-book 978 1 78744 044 9 288pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Nexus 3

Essays in German Jewish Studies

Edited by W I L L IAM C OL L I NS D ONAH U E & M ART HA B. H E L F E R Nexus publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions in the field, analyzing its development and definition, and considering its place vis-à-vis both German Studies and Jewish Studies. It also examines issues of pedagogy and programming at all levels. Nexus 3 features two special forum sections: renowned Heinrich Heine scholar Jeffrey Sammons offers a magisterial critical retrospective on this towering “German Jewish” author, followed by a response from Ritchie Robertson, while the dean of Karl Kraus scholarship, Edward Timms, reflects on the challenges and rewards of translating German Jewish dialect into English. Paul Reitter provides a thoughtful response.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com William Collins Donahue is the John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he chairs the Department of German and Russian. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. $75.00/£60.00(s) March 2017 978 1 57113 963 4 Library e-book 978 1 78204 905 0 2 b/w illus.; 196pp, 9 x 6, HB Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

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Kafka after Kafka

Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernity

Edited by IRIS BRUCE & MARK H. GELBER The topic of “Kafka after Kafka” is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka’s works. The fourteen new essays in this collection highlight the engagement of lesser known artists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Iris Bruce is Associate Professor of German at McMaster University. Mark H. Gelber is Senior Professor and Director of the Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben-Gurion University. $90.00/£75.00(s) August 2018 978 1 57113 981 8 8 b/w illus.; 318pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Nexus 4

Essays in German Jewish Studies

Edited by M artin Kagel Nexus 4 features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori; a forum section on the 2016 documentary film A German Life; an exploration of Kafka and childhood; and a provocative reassessment of Schindler’s List.

MARTIN KAGEL is A. G. Steer Professor of German at the University of Georgia. $60.00/75.00(s) November 2018 978 1 57113 294 9 10 b/w illus.; 256pp, 9 x 6, HB Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

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Goethe Yearbook 24

Edited by ADRIAN DAU B & E L I S ABET H K RI M M E R The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 24 features a special section on the poetics of space in the Goethezeit.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis. $85.00/£65.00(s) June 2017 978 1 57113 977 1 Library e-book 978 1 78744 018 0 336pp, 9 x 6, HB Goethe Yearbook

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Goethe Yearbook 25

Edited by ADRIAN DAU B & E L I S ABET H K RI M M E R Volume 25 of the Goethe Yearbook features a special section on acoustics around 1800, which includes contributions on sound and listening in Ludwig Tieck’s Der blonde Eckbert and on the role of the tympanum in Herder’s aesthetic theory. The volume also contains essays on Goethe and stage sequels, on figures of armament in eighteenthcentury German drama, on the dialectics of Bildung in Wilhelm Meister, on the Gothic motif in Goethe’s Faust and “Von deutscher Baukunst,” on Goethe and Salomon Maimon, on Goethe’s “Novelle,” and on Schiller’s Bürger critique.

Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis. $85.00/£65.00(s) June 2018 978 1 64014 003 5 336pp, 9 x 6, HB Goethe Yearbook

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German Jewish Literature after 1990

Edited by KATJA GA R LOFF & AGNES MUEL L ER The 1990 reunification of Germany gave rise to a new generation of writers who write in German, identify as both German and Jewish, and often also sustain cultural affiliations with places such as Russia, Azerbaijan, or Israel. This edited volume traces the development of this new literature into the present, offers fresh interpretations of individual works, and probes the very concept of “German Jewish literature.” The volume’s ten original essays by scholars from Europe and the U.S. reframe the debates about Holocaust memory and contemporary German culture.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Katja Garloff is Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. Agnes Mueller is the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of South Carolina. $95.00/£75.00(s) June 2018 978 1 64014 021 9 252pp, 9 x 6, HB Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought

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Heiner Müller’s Democratic Theater

The Politics of Making the Audience Work

MIC HAE L WO OD Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European playwrights and theater directors since Brecht.

While critical literature on Müller often discusses the politics of his works, analysis tends to stop at the level of the text, neglecting the theatrical events that emerge from it and the audiences for which it was written and performed. Situating his study within Müller’s interests in democracy and audience activity, Michael Wood addresses these gaps in scholarship, making an original contribution to the understanding of Müller’s work as playwright and director.

Michael Wood is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his PhD in 2014. $90.00/£75.00(s) June 2017 978 1 57113 998 6, Library e-book 978 1 78744 047 0 Personal e-book 978 1 78744 096 8 9 b/w illus.; 240pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The Blue Stain

A Novel of a Racial Outcast

HUGO BET TAUER Translated and intro PETER HöY NG Translated by CHAUNC EY J. M EL LOR Afterword by KENN ETH R . JA N K EN A European novel of racial mixing and “passing” in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today.

Hugo Bettauer (1872-1925) was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, a very early victim of the Nazis. Peter Höyng is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University. Chauncey J. Mellor is Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Kenneth R. Janken is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. $99.00/£80.00(s) May 2017 978 1 57113 982 5 Library e-book 978 1 78744 087 6 Personal e-book 978 1 78204 997 5 182pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Montage as Perceptual Experience Berlin Alexanderplatz from Döblin to Fassbinder

MA RIO SLU GAN Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are canonical works, and yet there is no monograph that treats all three, an omission even more striking because Döblin’s novel is seen as the most famous example of literary appropriation of film montage aesthetics. Mario Slugan addresses this glaring oversight by considering montage in experiential, historic, stylistic, and narratological terms, proposing that it was the perceived experiential similarity with Dada photomontage and Soviet montage films rather than any juxtaposition of meaning that made contemporary critics identify Berlin Alexanderplatz as the first novel to appropriate film montage.

Mario Slugan is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University. $95.00/£75.00(s) October 2017 978 1 64014 005 9, Library e-book 978 1 78744 104 0 46 b/w illus.; 254pp, 9 x 6, HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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Gender and Sexuality in East German Film Intimacy and Alienation

Edited by K Y L E F R AC K M AN & FAY E ST EWART The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the contradictions in GDR society in respect to gender and sexuality. This is the first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres (from shorts and feature films to educational videos, television productions, and documentaries) and in light of social, political, and cultural contexts.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Kyle Frackman is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Faye Stewart is Associate Professor of German at Georgia State University. $90.00/£75.00(s) June 2018 978 1 57113 992 4 20 b/w illus.; 266pp, 9 x 6, HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936

Edited by Barbara Hales , M ihaela Petrescu & Valerie W einstein This collection of essays interrogates the continuities and discontinuities in German cinema before and after January 1933 and their relationship to the crises of the years 1928-1936 in seven areas: politics, the economy, concepts of race and ethnicity, the making of cinema stars, genre cinema, film technologies and aesthetics, and German-international film relations.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com BARBARA HALES is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. MIHAELA PETRESCU is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. VALERIE WEINSTEIN is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. $90.00/75.00(s) October 2016 978 1 57113 935 1, Library e-book 978 1 78204 843 5 19 b/w illus.; 344pp, 9 x 6, HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

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Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960

EL A E. GEZEN Bertolt Brecht died in 1956, but his theory and practice has continued to shape debates about the politics of culture – not only in Germany, but in Turkey as well. For decades, Brecht has connected these two cultures, as they have become ever more intertwined. Drawing upon archival research and close reading, Ela Gezen reconstructs the central role of Brecht in Turkish theater and TurkishGerman literature, illuminating the inextricability of Turkish and German literary histories in the second half of the twentieth century.

Ela E. Gezen is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. $85.00/£65.00(s) April 2018 978 1 64014 024 0 224pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

P erennial B estseller

A Critical History of German Film

ST EPHEN BRO C K M A N N A history of German film dealing with individual films as works of art has long been needed.

Existing histories tend to treat cinema as an economic rather than an aesthetic phenomenon; earlier surveys that do engage with individual films do not include films of recent decades. This book treats representative films from 1913’s The Student of Prague to 2006’s The Lives of Others. Providing historical context through an introduction and interchapters preceding the treatments of each era’s films, the volume is suitable for semester- and year-long survey courses and for anyone with an interest in German film.

Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and past President of the German Studies Association.

[T]here is no comparable study that offers such a comprehensive and even-handed overview of the landmarks of German cinema in their sociopolitical context, and Brockmann’s volume will surely become a core text on both undergraduate and graduate film courses for many years to come.

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$60.00/£19.99 March 2017 978 1 57113 468 4 Library e-book 978 1 57113 722 7 38 b/w illus.; 532pp, 9 x 6, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 41

Edited by T H E OD ORE F. RI PPEY The Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Bertolt Brecht’s life and work and of topics of particular interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context. Including a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, the Yearbook, like Brecht himself, is committed to the concept of the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Alongside the usual wide-ranging lineup of research articles, volume 41 features an interview with Berliner Ensemble actor Annemone Haase, and an extensive special section on teaching Brecht, edited by Kristopher Imbrigotta and Per Urlaub..

Theodore F. Rippey is Associate Professor of German at Bowling Green State University. $49.95/£40.00(s) December 2017 978 0 98519 564 9 Library e-book 978 1 78744 139 2 Personal e-book 978 1 78744 133 0 16 b/w illus.; 326pp, 9 x 6, PB Brecht Yearbook

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Brahms and his Poets A Handbook

NATASHA LO GE S Johannes Brahms’s much-loved solo songs continue to be enjoyed in recordings and on recital stages all over the world. This book provides a wealth of information on the poets whose words he set, many of whom are still unfamiliar. The poets are revealed to be part of a deeply collegial cultural community of which Brahms was an active part.

Covering Brahms’s 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what Brahms believed to be the right poetic basis for his immortal music. It is designed to be an essential reference tool for students and scholars of Johannes Brahms, as well as performers and lovers of his songs.

NATASHA LOGES is Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music, London. $90.00/£50.00(s) November 2017 978 1 78327 236 5 40 b/w illus.; 461pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 42 “Recycling Brecht”

Edited by TOM K U H N , DAVI D BARN ET T & TH E OD ORE F. RI PPEY Volume 42 features a selection of the papers given and protocols of the events held at the International Brecht Society’s “Recycling Brecht” conference at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, in June 2016. The theme of recycling is understood both as a description of Brecht’s own creative practice and as an activity applied to his works by others. The volume includes keynote papers by Hans-Thies Lehmann and Amal Allana, on Brecht’s reception of Antigone, and on the reception and recycling of Brecht in India, respectively. Other papers are on a wide range of topics, from Brecht’s own “recycling” of Shakespeare and others, through the reception of his own works in a range of contexts and by later writers, to contemporary works that may be understood as post-Brechtian. The final section, introduced by an extended interview with American playwright Tony Kushner, documents additional creative responses to the theme.

Tom Kuhn is Professor of Twentieth-Century German Literature at the University of Oxford and David Barnett is Professor of Theatre at the University of York. Managing Editor Theodore F. Rippey is Associate Professor of German at Bowling Green State University.

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Brahms and the Shaping of Time

Edited by S C OT T M U RPH Y In Brahms and the Shaping of Time leading music scholars explore the numerous ways in which Brahms manipulates such basic elements as rhythm and phrase structure, in pieces ranging from the Third Piano Sonata and the Double Concerto to a number of his most important and beloved songs. Together, the essays in this volume combine fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer with the latest and most significant ways of thinking about rhythm, meter, and musical time.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Scott Murphy is professor of music theory at the University of Kansas. $110.00/£90.00(s) March 2018 978 1 58046 597 7 Library e-book 978 1 78744 017 3 316pp, 9 x 6, HB Eastman Studies in Music

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Wilhelm Furtwängler

Art and the Politics of the Unpolitical

RO GER ALLEN Wilhelm Furtwängler (18861954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. Yet more than sixty years after his death he remains a controversial figure: the complexities and equivocacy of his high-profile position within the Third Reich still cast a long shadow over his reputation. This book builds an intellectual biography of Furtwängler, probing this ambiguity, through a critical examination of his extensive series of essays, addresses and musical compositions, some of which are made available here to the public for the first time. It traces the development of his thought from its foundations in late nineteenth-century traditions of Bildung and associated discourses of conservative-minded nationalism, through the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic and the cultural and moral dilemmas of the Nazi period, to the post-World War II years of Bundesrepublik reconstruction, in which the beleaguered idealist found himself adrift in an alien cultural environment overshadowed by the unfolding narrative of the Nazi holocaust.

ROGER ALLEN is a Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford and author of Richard Wagner’s Beethoven (1870): A New Translation (Boydell Press, 2014) $80.00/£45.00(s) May 2018 978 1 78327 283 9 12 b/w illus.; 304pp, 23.4 x 23.4, HB

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Music into Fiction

Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated

TH EOD ORE Z IOL KOWSK I This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. First, it considers figures from German Romanticism to the present who saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition (Schumann), or sought careers in music before becoming writers (Hoffmann, Burgess), then the few operatic composers (e.g. Wagner, Schoenberg), who wrote their own libretti. Second, the book turns to literary works based on musical compositions. It concludes with a unique case: modern composers’ efforts to render musically the compositions described in detail by Thomas Mann in his novel Doktor Faustus.

Theodore Ziolkowski is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.

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Creating Der Rosenkavalier From Chevalier to Cavalier

M IC HAE L REY NOL D S A full account of the making, during 1909-10, of Der Rosenkavalier with emphasis on its derivation from a French operette of 1907, L’Ingenu libertin, which was seen in Paris

by Count Harry Kessler and which formed the basis of the opera then to be written by Hofmannsthal and Strauss. Michael Reynolds casts a major new light on Strauss’s most popular operatic success, highlighting in particular how it was that Hofmannsthal – who had not until then had any theatrical success as an original playwright – was advised and empowered by Kessler to produce a work that succeeded onstage from its very first performance and went rapidly on to conquer the stages of the world. $85.00/£50.00(s) June 2016 978 1 78327 049 1 15 colour & 63 b/w illus.; 263pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

$34.95/£19.99 February 2017 978 1 57113 973 3 Library e-book 978 1 78204 917 3 Personal e-book 978 1 78204 928 9 1 b/w illus.; 260pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900

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Music in Goethe’s Faust Goethe’s Faust in Music

Edited by LORR AIN E BYR N E B ODL EY That Goethe’s poetry has proved pivotal for the development of the nineteenth-century Lied has long been acknowledged. Less acknowledged is the seminal impact in musical realms of Goethe’s Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century.

LORRAINE BYRNE BODLEY is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Maynooth University and President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. $99.00/£60.00(s) June 2017 978 1 78327 200 6, 5 b/w illus.; 356pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB

DAVI D W Y N JONE S The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900.

David Wyn Jones’s triumphant volume tells the story of musical Vienna...the thoroughness of his research has resulted in vivid and compelling portraits of Vienna...and Jones proves an impeccably informed and wry chronicler of the fortunes of the City of Music. GR AMOPHONE

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“The Space of Words”

Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs

JENNI FER M. HOYER A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs’s largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.

Jennifer M. Hoyer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Arkansas. $24.95/£16.99(s) February 2017 978 1 57113 985 6, 212pp, 9 x 6, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Arno Schmidt’s Zettel’s Traum An Analysis

VOLKER MAX L A NG BEH N Considered one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, Arno Schmidt has been called “a giant of postwar German literature.”

Although his early fiction has been translated into English to high critical acclaim, he is not a well-known figure in the English-speaking world, where his complex work remains at the margins of critical inquiry. This is the first comprehensive study of Schmidt’s famous and controversial novel.

Volker Langbehn is professor of German at San Francisco State University. $24.95/£16.99 September 2016 978 1 57113 988 7, 222pp, 9 x 6, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Reformation and the German Territorial State Upper Franconia, 1300-1630

W I LLIAM BR ADF OR D SM ITH Religious reform and the rise of the territorial state were the central features of early modern German history. Reformation and state-building, however, had a much longer history, beginning in the later Middle Ages and continuing through the early modern period. This insightful and richly documented study explores the key relationship between the rise of the territorial state and religious upheavals of the age, centering his investigation on the diocese of Bamberg in upper Franconia.

William Bradford Smith is Professor of History at Oglethorpe University.

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Stefan Zweig and World Literature Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

Edited by BI RGE R VANW E SE N BE E C K & M ARK H . GE L BE R There is a new surge of interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and 1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity. This resurgence in interest is attested to by, among other things, new English translations of his works; motion pictures and novels about his final days; and a high-profile debate about the quality of his work. This global return to Zweig calls for a critical reassessment, which the current collection of essays provides by viewing his works from a global perspective: as world literature.

For a full list of contributors, please visit www.boydellandbrewer.com Birger Vanwesenbeeck is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Mark H. Gelber is Senior Professor of Comparative Literature and German-Jewish Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. $29.95/£19.99(s) June 2017 978 1 64014 007 3, 5 b/w illus.; 278pp, 9 x 6, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin

Edited by ROL F J. GOE BE L An advanced introduction to Benjamin’s work and its actualization for our own times.

[A] wonderful collection of essays that deal with Benjamin’s most fundamental concepts on language, rhetoric, translation, fragmentation, montage, messianism, politics, and phantasmagoria. [E]xcellent…. GER M AN QUART ER LY

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German Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Hester Baer & Alexandra M erley H ill

Tatort Germany

The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction Edited by Lynn M . K utch & Todd H erzog

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$24.95/£19.99 March 2018 978 1 64014 025 7, 224pp, 9 x 6, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

[R]ich and diverse . . . highly recommended for researchers of genre fiction, whether working in German Studies or beyond: quotations are provided in German and English, and an extensive bibliography[y] direct[s] readers to resources in both languages. . . . Tatort Germany offers a rich insight into contemporary Germanlanguage crime fction and the genre’s emerging trends. MODERN L ANGUAGE REVIEW $24.95/£19.99 March 2018 978 1 64014 026 4, 272pp, 9 x 6, PB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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