Publication of this, the thirty-first 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.

Thanks to the initiative and financial support of the Editors of German Life and Letters, it has again 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, GLL have continued to make funds available to create and maintain the 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 110 universities and other institutions, of which a substantial minority failed to respond, declined to be included this year, or sent in a nil return. 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 1997

This list gives details of theses for which higher degrees have been awarded at British and Irish universities between January and December 1997. Each entry comprises the title of the thesis, degree, university and/or college, and the name of the student.
 
 

Theses in progress 1997-98

This list contains details of all theses for higher degrees known to be in progress at British and Irish universities on 1 January 1998. The information given for each entry is as in the first list.
 
 

Work published in 1997

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 supplied). 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 1998

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

Classification

A Language

1 General linguistics

2 Germanic languages generally

3 German language

4 Dutch language

5 Scandinavian languages

6 Yiddish language

B Literature

1 General and comparative studies

2 German literature: general studies (incl. specific themes and genres)

3 German 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

4 Dutch literature

5 Scandinavian literature

6 Yiddish literature

C History, Society, Institutions

1 History, politics, sociology

1.1 To 1900

1.2 From 1900

2 Business and management studies since 1900

3 The press, the media, the arts

In section B 1 - 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 in the entry.
 
 

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

OGS 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