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      Georg Forster

      Todd Kontje

      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.

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      German Orientalisms

      Todd Kontje

      Building on Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’, which defined Orientalism as a form of Western knowledge directly linked to imperial power, Todd Kontje offers a more nuanced version as seen through the…

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      Thomas Mann’s World: Empire, Race and the Jewish Question

      Todd Kontje

      Provides a comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann as the representative German author of the Age of Empire, placing Mann’s comments about Jews and the Jewish characters in his fiction in…

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      Imperial Fictions: German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State

      Todd Kontje

      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…

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      Private Lives in the Public Sphere: The German Bildungsroman as Metafiction

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      Todd Kontje addresses a number of intriguing problems in the literary history of this important moment in German development, not all of which can be easily separated into discrete categories…

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      A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900

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

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      Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan

      Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego)

      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.

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      Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland

      Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego)

      This 1998 book is a survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. It discusses the lives and works of fourteen women writers, and argues that…

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      Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland

      Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego)

      This 1998 book is a survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. It discusses the lives and works of fourteen women writers, and argues that…

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      The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

      Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego)

      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…

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      The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

      Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego)

      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…

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      The German Bildungsroman: History of a Genre

      Todd Kontje (Royalty Account)

      An historical overview of criticism of the Bildungsroman from the late 18th century to the present.

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      German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919

      A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period.

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