Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

This book offers a thought-provoking and original analysis of literature and ideas in the critical transition period from Kant and Goethe, through the German Romantics, to Marx.

About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline.

A chronological collection of speeches, television addresses, essays, treaties, and statements documenting the circumstances and events surrounding German unification, from the grassroots movements in the GDR to the merger of the two states ...

"Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, themes, family members, acquaintances, and other topics, such as: Abraham, absurd, animals, bureaucracy, colonialism, death, Don Quixote, Sigmund Freud, ...

Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald's literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his characteristic literary ...

This fine book is a cohesive and comprehensive argument regarding the vicissitudes of German culture from the Enlightenment to the First World War, notably the tension between art and politics. Russell A. Berman, Stanford University"

The study presents a thorough investigation of Kafka's aphoristic writings, examining them in terms of the history of the aphorism in Germany, and paying special regard to Kafka's contemporary Austrian aphorists.