Companion to German Literature

Eda Sagarra is Professor and Head of the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Her books include A Social History of Germany (1977), Germany in the Nineteenth Century (1980), and Theodore Fontane: Der Stechlin (1986). Peter Skrine is Professor of German at the University of Bristol. His works include (with Lilian Furst) Naturalism (1971), The Baroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth Century Europe (1978), and Hauptmann, Wedekind and Schnitzler (1989).

"The whole book is more thoughtfully planned and more disciplined in execution than the Cambridge volume {'History' by Watanabe}.""Due attention is paid to women's writing without distortion of historical reality." "Overall it is fair to say that Sagarra and Skrine win on points over the Cambridge team {'History' by Watanabe}." Boyd Mullan, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies

• Preface. List of Maps.Note to the Reader.1. The Sixteenth Century.2. The Seventeenth Century.3. The Augustan Age of German Literature.4. The Classical Age of German Literature.5. The Romantic Era.6. From Biedermeier to Realism.7. The Literature of the Metropolis.8. Classical Modernism.9. Literature after 1945.Postscript.Biographical Index.General Index.