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1  Fabricating Pleasure

Fabricating Pleasure
Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830

By Karin Wurst
Published 2005
$59.95s (Cloth) - 9780814331316

Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment.

2  History, Fiction, and Germany

History, Fiction, and Germany
Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation

By Brent O. Peterson
Published 2005
$54.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332009

A study of the content, development, and transmission of German identity during the nineteenth century as Germany’s national narrative took shape in historical fiction and in both popular and academic history.

3  Foreign Words

Foreign Words
Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe

By Susan Bernofsky
Published 2005
$49.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332221

A new perspective on the principal developments in translation practice and theory in Germany during the Age of Goethe with emphasis on the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kleist as translators.

4  Words from Abroad

Words from Abroad
Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers

By Katja Garloff
Published 2005
$49.95s (Cloth) - 9780814332450

Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.

5  About Face

About Face
German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz

By Richard T. Gray
Published 2004
$47.95s (Cloth) - 9780814331798

A critical history of physiognomic thought in German-speaking Europe that traces the roots of twentieth-century racial profiling to the Enlightenment.

6  Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
By Gerhard Richter
Published 2002
$21.95s (Paper) - 9780814330838

The political concepts in Benjamin's autobiographical writings as enacted in the language of the body.

7 The Myth of Power and the Self

The Myth of Power and the Self
Essays on Franz Kafka

By Walter H. Sokel
Published 2002
$42.95s (Cloth) - 9780814326084

This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka.

8 The Survival of Images

The Survival of Images
Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients

By Louis Rose
Published 2001
$39.95s (Cloth) - 9780814328606

In The Survival of Images, Louis Rose offers an engaging exploration of these changes as they occurred in three key areas of inquiry at the turn of the century: art history, classics, and the emerging field of psychoanalysis.

9  Peripheral Visions

Peripheral Visions
The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema

Edited by Kenneth S. Calhoon
Published 2001
$22.95s (Paper) - 9780814329283

An insightful overview of an important era in cinema.

10  Locating the Romantic Subject

Locating the Romantic Subject
Novalis with Winnicott

By Gail M. Newman
Published 1997
$39.95s (Cloth) - 9780814326503

An exploration of the relationship between early German Romantic subjectivity and Winnicott’s notion of the “intermediate area.”

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