Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-329) and index
The afterlife of romanticism / Andrew Webber -- Parallels and disparities: German literature in the context of European culture / Lilian Furst -- Revolution and reaction: the political context of Central European literature / Arne Koch -- Literary controversy: naming and framing the post-romantic, pre-realist period / Robert C. Holub -- Poetic realism, naturalism, and the rise of the novella / Gail Finney -- Literary movements of the 1890s: symbolism, Impressionism, and fin-de-siecle Austria / Ernst Grabovszki -- The absence of drama in nineteenth-century Germany / Benjamin Bennett -- The nineteenth-century German novel / Jeffrey L. Sammons -- Between sentimentality and phantasmagoria: German lyric poetry, 1830-1890 / Thomas Pfau -- Richard Wagner: opera and music-drama / Christopher Morris -- Navigating the nineteenth century: a critical bibliography / John Pizer -- List of primary sources / compiled by Thomas Spencer.