Camden House imprint: 50 books
Tatort Germany
The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. During the 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective...
Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature
Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well as in political organizations. In mainstream culture, however, the women of the period are still predominantly depicted as the victims...
Writing the Revolution
The Construction of "1968" in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radical re-imagination of the political and economic order and social...
Post-Wall German Cinema and National History
Utopianism and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political...
Remembering Africa
The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial...
Kafka after Kafka
Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser known artists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those...
Distant Readings
Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In nineteenth-century Germany, breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challenge: how to read it all? This anthology seeks new answers to the scholarly quandary of the abundance...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
This new collection, intended for the student and the interested general reader of German alike, includes both traditional examples, and those which fall outside the usual canon. The sixteen novellas in the volume have been carefully chosen on the bases of length, historical significance, popularity,...