Broken Ground tells the story of Germany’s occupation of a thin strip of war-ravaged, ethnically Polish territory seized from Russia in the first year of the First World War, 1914-1915.  Meer

This book explores the intersection of folklore and new media storytelling in feminist adaptations of traditional fairy tales, with a focus on the Germanic folktale and its reinterpretation within online fan fiction.  Meer

This book explores German-language Medea adaptations from the late twentieth century and their relationship to feminist theory and politics, with readings of Haas, Wolf, Nick, Loher and Jelinek.  Meer

The humanities can contribute to an understanding of a fundamental aspect of human life: work. This cross-disciplinary volume explores how German literature has grappled with understanding work in times of disruptive change brought about by industrialization, rapid technological advances, and globalization.  Meer

This collaborative project presents the first annotated English translation of German scholar Albert Lindner’s 1869 metatheatrical play, Der Hund des Aubri.  Meer

Charles Sealsfield, a runaway Moravian monk, reinvented himself as an American author and the self-proclaimed founder of a new novel form. Now long forgotten, his fiction, travel books and correspondence reassess his contribution to the American and German canons.  Meer

The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland’s finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence. This interdisciplinary collection of essays supplies a criticalbut appreciative engagement with von Matt’s writing, the first volume devoted specifically to probing the legacy of his thought.  Meer

Goethe’s play Stella caused so much turmoil in Germany that it was retracted from the stage. This new translation provides an introduction exploring the reception of the play in Germany and England and scholarly interpretations of the play as well as a detailed appendix.  Meer

A psychoanalytic approach focuses on central acts of perception and the role of vision as key to the formation of identity in Goethe. The impact of visuality on the act of writing is examined in this study and new interpretations of his most important works emerge through analysis of subject formation within a Lacanian framework.  Meer