Genealogical fictions : cultural periphery and historical change in the modern novel

The novel in German since 1990

Introduction: the novel in German since 1990 / Robert Schindel's Gebürtig (Born-Where) / Günter Grass's Ein weites Feld (Too Far Afield) / Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us) / Christa Wolf's Medea: Stimmen (Medea: A Modern Retelling) / Zafer Şenocak's Gefährliche Verwandschaft (Perilous Kinship) / Monika Maron's Endmoränen (End Moraines) / Martin Walser's Ein springender Brunnen (A Gushing Fountain) / Michael Kleeberg's Ein Garten im Norden (A Garden in the North) / Christian Kracht's Faserland (Frayed-Land) / Elfriede Jelinek's Gier (Greed) / Karen Duve's Dies ist kein Liebeslied (This is Not a Love-Song) / Herta Müller's Herztier (The Land of Green Plums) / W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Walter Kempowski's Alles umsonst (All for Nothing) / F. C. Delius's Mein Jahr als Mörder (My Year as a Murderer) / Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin / Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) / Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion)

The literature of melancholia : early modern to postmodern

Melancholia as a sense of loss: an introduction / Yet once more: melancholia and amnesia in Milton's Lycidas / Male pregnancies, virgin births, monsters of the mind: early modern melancholia and (cross-)gendered constructions of creativity / Mourning and melancholia in England and its transatlantic colonies: examples of seventeenth-century female appropriations / "To pictur'd regions and imagin'd worlds": female melancholic writing and the poems of Mary Leapor / "The dark bottomless abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open": the rescision of the male melancholic genius in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus / "They came, they cut away my tallest pines": Tennyson and the melancholy of modernity / The melancholy of history: the French Revolution and European historiography / Commercialising melancholy: the National Trust / Melancholia in the South Pacific: the strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson's travel writing / The secret of the father in the colonial secret: Rosa Praed's Weird Melancholy / Modernist melancholia and time: the synchronicity of the non-synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad / The closed circle of Britain's postcolonial melancholia / Working at the seams: Howard Barker's tragic Trauerspiel / Melancholia and mourning animals / Melancholic consolation?: J. M. Coetzee, irony, and the aesthetics of the sublime / The novel after melancholia: on Tom McCarthy's Remainder and David Mitchell's Ghostwritten