History of Histories of German Literature, 1835-1914.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 From Gervinus to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century -- 2 From the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to Scherer (1883) -- 3 The End of the Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 4 Titles, Periodization, and the Literary Canon -- 5 The Most Successful Histories of German Literature and Translations into Other Languages -- 6 Foreign Histories of German Literature: French -- 7 Foreign Histories of German Literature: English-language Areas (UK, USA) -- 8 Foreign Histories of German Literature: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland -- 9 An Overview -- 10 Conclusion -- 11 Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Knowledge of German literature is frequently based on the hundreds of general histories of German literature that have been published since the genre first appeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In A History of Histories of German Literature Michael Batts attempts to describe the various forms which these histories took between 1835 and 1914, not only in Germany but in other countries, and show how these forms developed.

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