The Modern German Historical Novel - Paradigms, Problems and Perspectives

This is the first collection to examine the theory and practice of the historical novel in twentieth-century German and Austrian literature. One of the main aims of the volume is to work against the conventional view of the historical novel as an antiquated and escapist genre, remote from contemporary problems and tied to nineteenth-century models of realism. These essays show that the historical novel is in fact always a response to contemporary history.>

About the author

David Roberts is Emeritus Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Monash University, Australia. His publications include History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture (2021), The Total Work of Art in European Modernism, (2011) and Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004).

Product details

• Authors: David Roberts, Philip Thomson
• Assisted by: D. Roberts (Editor), David Roberts (Editor), Philip Thomson (Editor), Thomson Philip (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.1991
• EAN: 9780854966677
• ISBN: 978-0-85496-667-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Series: German Historical Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000