A broad-ranging introduction to the development of the German novel This volume, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers. Notes on contributors vii Preface xi Chronology xiv A note concerning translations and bibliographical data xxiii The German novel in the long twentieth century 1(14) Graham Bartram Contexts of the novel: society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present 15(16) Lynn Abrams The novel in Wilhelmine Germany: from realism to satire 31(15) Alan Bance Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers: Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn 46(16) Ritchie Robertson Franz Kafka: the radical modernist 62(15) Stanley Corngold Modernism and the Bildungsroman: Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain 77(16) Russell A. Berman Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s: Hermann Broch and Robert Musil 93(17) Graham Bartram Philip Payne Images of the city 110(13) Burton Pike Women writers in the `Golden' Twenties 123(15) Elizabeth Boa The First World War and its aftermath in the German novel 138(14) Michael Minden The German novel during the Third Reich 152(15) Ronald Speirs History, memory, fiction after the Second World War 167(20) Dagmar Barnouw Aesthetics and resistance: Boll, Grass, Weiss 187(15) J. H. Reid The kleiner Mann and modern times: from Fallada to Walser 202(16) Anthony Waine The `critical' novel in the GDR 218(14) Patricia Herminghouse Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era: Max Frisch and Peter Handke 232(17) Michael Butler Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s 249(17) Allyson Fiddler The postmodern German novel 266(14) Paul Michael Lutzeler Index 280