Cornell University Press And Cornell University Library imprint: 20 books

The Topography of Modernity

Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

by Elliott Schreiber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them...

The Chain of Things

Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940

by Eric Downing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018

In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and...

Repentance for the Holocaust

Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past

by C. K. Martin Chung
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017

In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection...

Necessary Luxuries

Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

by Matt Erlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary...

Legal Tender

Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination

by John Griffith Urang
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic...

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany

Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust

by Sonja Boos
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul...
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