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German American literature

Here are entered works of literature in German by German Americans.

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German American literature -- Periodicals

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Filed under: German American literature -- Periodicals

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Filed under: German literature

Des Reiches Sonnenwende: Ein Mahnruf Schwäbischer Dichter (in German; Stuttgart: J. Engelhorn, 1919), contrib. by Emanuel von Bodman, Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Ludwig Finckh, Cäsar Flaischlen, Heinrich Lilienfein, Anna Schieber, Wilhelm von Scholz, Wilhelm Schussen, and Auguste Supper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism

On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era: Collected Essays (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by H. B. Nisbet (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Christine Lehleiter
- PDF with commentary at OAPEN
- page images at HathiTrust
The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Roger Paulin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Quest for Mysteries: The Masonic Background for Literature in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1947), by Heinrich Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: German fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

Filed under: German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
- Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
- PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era: Collected Essays (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by H. B. Nisbet (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
- PDF files at Project MUSE
- PDF files at JSTOR
Women Writing War: From German Colonialism Through World War I (Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies v24; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2018), ed. by Katharina Von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta, and Julie Shoults (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Roger Paulin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
Camoens in der Deutschen Dichtung des 19. Jahrhunderts: Ein Beitrag zum Künstler-Drama (dissertation; Erfurt: Ohlenroth'sche Buchdruckerei G. Richters, 1913), by Wilhelm Wilmsmeier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Deutsche Geschichte im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert (5 volumes in German; Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1903-1908), by Heinrich von Treitschke
Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century (7 volumes; London: Jarrold and Sons, G. Allen and Unwin, 1915-1919), by Heinrich von Treitschke, trans. by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul, contrib. by William Harbutt Dawson

Filed under: German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy: Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America (UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures #121; c1998), by Jeffrey L. Sammons
- multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE
- PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Marc Redfield (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

Filed under: German poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry (New York: AMS Press, 1966), by Wilhelm Alfred Braun (Gutenberg text)
Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry (Columbia University dissertation; 1905), by Wilhelm Alfred Braun (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: German literature -- 19th century -- Translations into English

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English (20 volumes; New York: German Publication Society, c1913-1914), ed. by Kuno Francke (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Inconceivable Effects: Ethics Through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2013), by Martin Blumenthal-Barby (Epub and PDF with commentary at Cornell Open)
Literary Skinheads? Writing from the Right in Reunified Germany (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2000), by Jay Rosellini (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
- Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
- PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
Women Writing War: From German Colonialism Through World War I (Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies v24; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2018), ed. by Katharina Von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta, and Julie Shoults (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

Filed under: German literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English (20 volumes; New York: German Publication Society, c1913-1914), ed. by Kuno Francke (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: German literature -- Bibliography

Die Calderon-Literatur in Deutschland (in German; Leipzig: W. Friedrich, 1881), by Edmund Dorer
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: German literature -- Celtic influences