Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The bourgeois and the official: a historical overview
• Chapter 2: The laying of the foundations (to 1781)
• (i) Towns and princes (to 1720)
• (ii) Between France and England (1720-81)
• Chapter 3: The age of idealism (1781-1832)
• (i) A republic of letters (1781-1806)
• (ii) The birth of nationalism (1806-32)
• Chapter 4: The age of materialism (1832-1914)
• (i) Mind and matter (1832-72)
• (ii) ‘Power protecting interiority’ (1872-1914)
• Chapter 5: Traumas and memories (1914- )
• (i) The nemesis of ‘culture’ (1914-45)
• (ii) Learning to mourn (1945- )
• Further reading
• German history
• Histories of German literature
• Collections of essays
• Period studies
• Individual writers