Table of Contents

Introduction - Max Reinhart
Frühe Neuzeit-- Early Modernity: Reflections on a New Category of Literary History - Klaus Garber
German Literature of the Middle Period: Working with the Sources - Hans-Gert Roloff
Literary Transitions, 1300-1500: From Late Medieval to Early Modern - R. Graeme Dunphy
The Evolution of Modern Standard German - Renate Born
Education in Early Modern Germany - Wilhelm Kuehlmann
The Reformation Movement in Germany - Scott Dixon
Early Modern German Printing - Stephan Fussel
Poetics and Rhetorics in Early Modern Germany - Joachim Knape
Neo-Latin Literature in Early Modern Germany - Wilhelm Kuehlmann
Ad fontes: German Humanists as Editors and Translators - Erika Rummel
Early Modern German Drama, 1400-1700 - John Alexander
Poetry in Gemany, 1450-1700 - Peter Hess
Early Modern German Narrative Prose - Andreas Solbach
The Emblem and Emblematic Forms in Early Modern Germany - Peter M. Daly
The Pictorial Language of German Art, 1400-1650 - Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Eros in Early Modern German Literature - Gerhart Hoffmeister
Literature and the Court, 1450-1720 - Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Music in Early Modern Germany - Steven Saunders
Early Modern German Libraries and Collections - Jill Bepler
Travel Reports in Early Modern Germany - Wolfgang Neuber
Demonologies: Writing about Magic and Witchcraft - Gerhild Scholz Williams
Parallel Lives: Heinrich Steinhöwel, Albrecht von Eyb, and Niklas von Wyle - John L. Flood
Parallel Lives: Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Bucer - Laurel Carrington
Parallel Lives: Martin Opitz and Julius Wilhelm Zincgref - Theodor Verweyen
Parallel Lives: Sigmund von Birken and Duke Anton Ulrich - John Roger Paas
Women's Writing in the Context of Their Lives, 1520-1720 - Anna Carrdus

Reviews

This pioneering tome joins German Literature of the High Middle Ages... and other volumes in the series, and deserves a broad readership. Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*

[...] The editor and the contributors are to be praised for having accomplished a truly Herculean task through which this period finally receives the recognition it deserves. There is nothing comparable on the German, or any other, scholarly book market.
*GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW*

This vast undertaking -- in which scholars teaching in America, Canada, England, and Germany collaborated - is, with its over 1000 pages, an interdisciplinary work containing wide-ranging essays that range far beyond German literature of the early modern period. Not only does the work treat the most significant research in early modern German literature over the last few decades; it also uncovers areas that are opportune for further research.
*H-NET*

The most important guide to the subject now available in English.
*MONATSHEFTE*