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GERMAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, 1830-1880

GERMAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, 1830-1880 German Studies LITERATURE, 1830-1880 By DAVID A. jACKSON, Lecturer in German, University College, Cardiff I. GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Roy C. Cowen, Neun;:;ehntes ]ahrhundert (I8jO­ I88o) (Handbuch der deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Abteilung II: Bibliographien, g), Berne-Munich, Francke, 2 I 6 pp., is a select bibl. intended for the student and the non-specialist. Arranged according to periods and trends, and weighted towards interpretation rather than biog., it is commendably full on individual authors. Some of the rubrics are arbitrary; others have a hollow, worn ring about them; and intrusive evaluative comments can occasionally be annoying. There are few inaccuracies. PERIODS. E. L. Stahl and W. E. Yuill, German Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Introductions to German Literature, 3), London, Cresset, xxiv + 5IO pp., like the other vols in the series, has an introd. followed by a select bibl. on the period in general, and then on individual genres and authors. Our period is conveniently, if not convincingly, reduced to 'Biedermeier and Young Germany' (I82o-5o) and 'Realism' (I85o-8o), with great emphasis on narrative prose. The claim (p. I44) that the Biedermeier spirit is representative of the period I 8 5-48 I has been challenged for SOme time; it is debatable, too, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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German Studies LITERATURE, 1830-1880 By DAVID A. jACKSON, Lecturer in German, University College, Cardiff I. GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Roy C. Cowen, Neun;:;ehntes ]ahrhundert (I8jO­ I88o) (Handbuch der deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Abteilung II: Bibliographien, g), Berne-Munich, Francke, 2 I 6 pp., is a select bibl. intended for the student and the non-specialist. Arranged according to periods and trends, and weighted towards interpretation rather than biog., it is commendably full on individual authors. Some of the rubrics are arbitrary; others have a hollow, worn ring about them; and intrusive evaluative comments can occasionally be annoying. There are few inaccuracies. PERIODS. E. L. Stahl and W. E. Yuill, German Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Introductions to German Literature, 3), London, Cresset, xxiv + 5IO pp., like the other vols in the series, has an introd. followed by a select bibl. on the period in general, and then on individual genres and authors. Our period is conveniently, if not convincingly, reduced to 'Biedermeier and Young Germany' (I82o-5o) and 'Realism' (I85o-8o), with great emphasis on narrative prose. The claim (p. I44) that the Biedermeier spirit is representative of the period I 8 5-48 I has been challenged for SOme time; it is debatable, too,

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Published: Mar 13, 1971

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