New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.

This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist

This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted

The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability, polarization, and radicalism, the p

In late 1910, after graduating from Harvard with a master’s degree in philosophy, the young T. S. Eliot headed across the Atlantic for a year of life and stud