'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment...

Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on t...

»Nach wie vor bin ich der Meinung, daß sich die Literatur der deutschen landesflüchtigen Schrifts...

Evariste-Désiré de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century ...

Focusing on Kafka's sense of Jewish identity and knowledge of Judaism, Robertson elucidates the s...

Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.

Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.

Religion and enlightenment, the twin themes of this volume, always exist in tension. The tensions...

Religion and enlightenment, the twin themes of this volume, always exist in tension. The tensions...

German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any othe...

'...behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscr...