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This dialogue about death from the year 1400 has no peer in early German Renaissance literature. Ernest Kirrmann presents an English translation of the German classic, as well as a preface by Alois Bernt giving an introduction to the context and significance of the work. The text is accompanied by five woodcuts.

Originally published in celebration of Hermann Hesse's 80th birthday, this highly documented study, practical handbook, and reference work is presented in three parts. Mileck gives a short biography of Hesse's life and a general characterization of his writing, followed by a critical history of Hesse scholarship, and an exhaustive bibliography.

In this study originally published in 1955, Steer explores the importance of Goethe's family concept in two autobiographical works, Campagne in Frankreich and Belagerung von Mainz. Through a close textual analysis, Steer argues that at the centre of both pieces is Goethe's conception of the family as Urform of society.

Presents twelve essays by distinguished scholars on newly emerging epistemologies regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine, the natural world, the body, sexuality, intellectual property, aesthetics, demons, and witches.

While Romantic Doppelganger are often preternatural figures, the Poetic Realists configure egos and their narrative Others to portray characters in their psychological comprehensiveness. John Pizer offers an overview of the Romantic Double motif and its connections to the theory of Poetic Realism.

A study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century that concentrates on three writers: Charles Sealsfield, an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823; Friedrich Gerstacker, who produced a large body of fiction, travel reportage, and emigration advice; and Karl May, who wrote adventure stories set in an imaginary West.

Explores the "Jewish question" in German literature from Lessing's Nathan der Weise in 1779 to Sessa's Unser Verkehr in 1815. Peter Erspamer analyses the transition from an enlightened emancipatory literature advocating tolerance in the late eighteenth century to an anti-Semitic literature with nationalistic overtones in the early nineteenth century.