J. J. Long is professor of German at the University of Durham. He is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard and coeditor of W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion. He has published widely on twentieth-century literature and has been a recipient of the Max Kade Prize for Best Essay in Modern Austrian Literature, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

I've found this book to be greatly useful in developing a more thorough approach to Sebald (as well as a number of authors with whom Sebald shares several affinities), and I think this will be a book I'll be returning to often -- Scott Esposito Conversational Reading Long has produced a remarkable, meticulously researched volume that transcends "scholarship as usual"... Recommended. CHOICE Concise and insightful. -- Nicole Thesz German Studies Review W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity is an ambitious and coherent volume that provides a compelling account of the centrality to Sebald's work of "the longer history of modernity". Contemporary Literature J. J. Long offers a novel approach to reading his texts by contextualizing Sebald's thought in the framework of modernism. -- Margarete Johanna Landwehr Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

J. J. Long is professor of German at the University of Durham. He is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard and coeditor of W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion. He has published widely on twentieth-century literature and has been a recipient of the Max Kade Prize for Best Essay in Modern Austrian Literature, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

I've found this book to be greatly useful in developing a more thorough approach to Sebald (as well as a number of authors with whom Sebald shares several affinities), and I think this will be a book I'll be returning to often -- Scott Esposito Conversational Reading Long has produced a remarkable, meticulously researched volume that transcends "scholarship as usual"... Recommended. CHOICE Concise and insightful. -- Nicole Thesz German Studies Review W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity is an ambitious and coherent volume that provides a compelling account of the centrality to Sebald's work of "the longer history of modernity". Contemporary Literature J. J. Long offers a novel approach to reading his texts by contextualizing Sebald's thought in the framework of modernism. -- Margarete Johanna Landwehr Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature