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Article: German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899. Ed. by CLAYTON KOELB and ERIC DOWNING. (Camden House History of German Literature, 9) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2005. vii +348 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]; $90. ISBN 1-57113-250-3.
The whole venture of the Camden House History of German Literature appears quite unorthodox. While a complete volume is devoted to the short-lived Sturm und Drang period, and three volumes to the various phases of the Goethezeit (vol. 6: Sturm und Drang, vol. 7: Weimar Classicism, and vol. 8: German Romanticism), the entire twentieth century, with its many historical caesuras and literary movements, is compressed into a single ...