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Examines the life and work of writer and political activist Georg Forster (1754-1794), a participant in Captain Cook's second voyage and one of the leading figures in the Mainz Republic.

Georg Forster (1754-1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who left behind two travelogues, a series of essays on diverse topics, and numerous letters. This in-d...

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Explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire.

This volume provides a succinct introduction to the life and works of Thomas Mann. The primary focus is on his literary texts, but it also touches on his evolution as one of the most controversial public intellectuals of the twentieth century.

The first survey in English of novels by German women in the period 1771 1871, and their role in shaping attitudes.

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The first survey in English of novels by German women in the period 1771 1871, and their role in shaping attitudes.

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New, specially commissioned essays on representative works of 19th-century German realism.

A succinct introduction to the life and works of Thomas Mann, addressing both his literary texts and his personal life.

A fresh examination of the role of the East in the German literary imagination, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present