Subject Guide - German Studies

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Oxford Companion to German Literature (ref PT 41.G3 1997)

Encyclopedia of German Literature (ref PT 91.E53 2000)

The Oxford Companion and other encyclopedias give an overview; often, but not always, you will find some secondary literature listed.

Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (ref AE27.0672)

Grimms Wörterbuch (ref PF 3625.G75 1999)

A general encyclopedia in German and THE dictionary – often handy

Dictionary of Literary Biography (ref PN 451.D5)

56 German Fiction Writers 1914-45      66 German Fiction Writers 1885-1913      69 Contemporary German Fiction  

75 Contemporary German Fiction      81 Austrian Fiction 1875-1913      85 Austrian Fiction after 1914

90 German Writers in the Age of Goethe 1789-1832      94 German Writers in the Age of Goethe: Sturm und Drang to Classicism

97 German Writers from the Enlightenment to Sturm und Drang 1720-1764      118 20^th century German Dramatists 1889-1918

124 20^th century German Dramatists 1919-1992      129 19^th century German Writers 1841-1900      133 19^th century German Writers to 1840

138 German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages: 1170-1280      148 German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages: 800-1170

164 German Baroque Writers 1580-1660      168 German Baroque Writers 1661-1730

176 German Writers of Renaissance and Reformation, 1280-1580