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This 'Very Short Introduction' presents a tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present focusing especially on the last 250 years. It emphasizes the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, and highlights their place in wider social and political events.

Title German literature : a very short introduction / Nicholas Boyle.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher [Oxford] : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2008
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-162) and index.
Content The bourgeois and the official : a historical overview -- The laying of the foundations (to 1781) -- The age of idealism (1781-1832) -- The age of materialism (1832-1914) -- Traumas and memories (1914- ).
Series Very short introductions
Extent 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits.
Language English
National Library system number 997010714253905171
MARC RECORDS
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