Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland

Research in Germanic Studies 1995-96


© The University of Aberdeen and The Institute of Germanic Studies 1996
PREFACE

Publication of this, the twenty-ninth issue of the annual survey of current research in Germanic studies, provides a welcome opportunity to thank all those who have supplied information for inclusion in it for their continuing support. A special word of thanks is due to those who, as well as furnishing information, have generously presented copies of their theses and published works to the Institute of Germanic Studies, London, for addition to its library. Such gifts form the nucleus of a collection of works by British and Irish Scholars in the field of Germanic studies, a collection the Institute is hoping to develop systematically as and when circumstances permit.

It has not been widely appreciated that for the previous 23 years this booklet has been produced almost single-handedly by John Flood, Deputy Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies. When he first took on the task, there were `only' about 400 people on the mailing list; now, the CUTG has over 1300 members, reflecting in part the increase in Universities teaching German in Britain and Ireland. In view of the scale of the current operation, it was agreed at the 1995 Conference that in future publication be restricted to Theses Accepted and Theses in Progress.

Thanks to the initiative and financial support of the Editors of German Life and Letters, however, it has been possible to produce the booklet in its customary form for at least one further year: thus, this booklet has been jointly financed by German Life and Letters and the CUTG. In addition, funds were made available by GLL to create and maintain a version on the World Wide Web, available at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ger042/german_dept/rgs/rgs.html. Whilst final responsibility for the content (and any remaining errors) rests with the compilers, we should like to thank John Flood for his advice and support throughout the production of this booklet, and the Institute of Germanic Studies for accepting it in their Library Publications series.

This booklet has been compiled from information supplied by Heads of Departments in universities in Great Britain and Ireland. Requests for information were sent to 108 universities and other institutions, of which 25 failed to respond, despite being sent a reminder. The completeness (and therefore usefulness) of the information here must be seen in the light of this response rate. Since Research in Germanic Studies is intended primarily to serve as a current-awareness bulletin, it does not give full bibliographical information. It simply aims to tell interested colleagues what is going on in Germanic Studies in the United Kingdom and in Ireland and where to turn for more information.

Research in Germanic Studies comprises four lists:

THESES COMPLETED IN 1995

This list gives details of theses for which higher degrees have been awarded at British and Irish universities, polytechnics, and other institutions of higher education between January and December 1995. Each entry comprises the title of the thesis, degree, university and/or college, and the name of the student.

THESES IN PROGRESS 1995-96

This list contains details of all theses for higher degrees known to be in progress at British and Irish universities on 1 January 1996. The information given for each entry is as in the first list.

WORK PUBLISHED IN 1995

The information for this and the following list has been supplied by members of the Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland. Titles of books are followed by the publisher and author. Contributions to collections are indicated by `In:' followed by the title of the collection, editor(s), publisher, and author. Where a work is mentioned more than once, full details are given in the first and/or main entry and a short title is used elsewhere. Titles of articles in periodicals are followed by the name of the periodical, in full or abbreviated form, and the author.

WORK DUE TO BE PUBLISHED IN 1996

In this list the information given follows the pattern used for the third list.

CLASSIFICATION

A LANGUAGE
B LITERATURE 3.1 To 1500
3.2 1500-1700
3.3 The eighteenth century and the Classical Age
3.4 The Romantic Age
3.5 1830-1890
3.6 1890-1945
3.7 Post-1945
C HISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS 1.1 To 1900
1.2 From 1900
In section B I - B3.7 general works on each period are followed by works by and about individual authors arranged alphabetically. Where the subject of a work falls into more than one section, the entry has been duplicated. Entries for studies of more than one author have been duplicated where the authors fall into different period subdivisions, but for studies of authors within the same period the entry occurs only under the name of the author who comes first alphabetically.

ABBREVIATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS OF TITLES OF PERIODICALS, SERIES AND PUBLISHERS

DVjs Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift
FMLS Forum for Modern Language Studies
GLL German Life and Letters
MLR Modern Language Review
NGS New German Studies
GS Oxford German Studies
PEGS Publications of the English Goethe Society
ZfdA Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum
ZfdPh Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie
YWMLS The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies

ABBREVIATIONS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES

Bk Birkbeck College, London
Glds Goldsmiths University of London
IGS Institute of Germanic Studies, London
KC King's College London
NUI National University of Ireland
QMW Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
RH Royal Holloway University of London
TCD Trinity College, Dublin
UC University College London
UEA University of East Anglia
UWE University of the West of England, Bristol
UMIST University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology