Contents and Preface

RESEARCH IN GERMANIC STUDIES

1998-1999

THESES COMPLETED IN 1998 and THESES IN PROGRESS 1998-99

at Universities in Great Britain and Ireland

together with

WORK PUBLISHED IN 1998
by Members of the Conference of University Teachers of German in
Great Britain and Ireland

as known on 1 January 1999

Compiled by

GORDON J. A. BURGESS, STEVEN W. LAWRIE and GUNDULA M. SHARMAN

Published by

THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
and the
INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY

in association with GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS

on behalf of
THE CONFERENCE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Institute of Germanic Studies LP 51

UK ISSN 0260-5929

ISBN 0-85457-191-4

PREFACE

Publication of this, the thirty-second 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 a printed version for at least one further year: thus, this booklet has been jointly financed by German Life and Lettersand the CUTG. In addition, GLLhave continued to make funds available to create and maintain the version on the World Wide Web, available at < http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ger042/>. Regrettably, the section on work to be published in the forthcoming year has had to be dropped for this volume: in the current research and publishing climate, this section had grown to occupy almost half the booklet, and concern had been growing about the accuracy of some of the entries as well as about the likelihood of their being published within the given time-scale. 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. We should also like to thank Hamish Ritchie, W. A. Kelly and Duncan Large for their perceptive proof-reading of the completed typescript.

This booklet has been compiled from information supplied by Heads of Departments in universities and other institutions in Great Britain and Ireland. Requests for information were sent to some 110 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 Studiesis 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 Great Britain and in Ireland and where to turn for more information.

Research in Germanic Studiescomprises three lists:

THESES COMPLETED IN 1998

This list gives details of theses for which higher degrees have been awarded at British and Irish universities between January and December 1998. Each entry comprises the title of the thesis, degree, university and/or college, and the name of the student.

THESES IN PROGRESS 1998-99

This list contains details of all theses for higher degrees known to be in progress at British and Irish universities on 1 January 1999. The information given for each entry is as in the first list.

WORK PUBLISHED IN 1998

The information for this 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.

CLASSIFICATION

ALANGUAGE
1General linguistics
2Germanic languages generally
3German language
4 Dutch language
5 Scandinavian languages
6Yiddish language

BLITERATURE
1General and comparative studies
2German literature: general studies (incl. specific themes and genres)
3German literature:
3.1To 1500
3.21500-1700
3.3The eighteenth century and the Classical Age
3.4The Romantic Age
3.51830-1890
3.61890-1945
3.7Post-1945
4 Dutch literature
5 Scandinavian literature
6Yiddish literature

CHISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS
1History, politics, sociology
1.1To 1900
1.2From 1900
2Business and management studies since 1900
3The press, the media, the arts

In section B 1 - B 3.7 general works on each period are followed by works by and about individual authors arranged alphabetically. Where the submitting institution has indicated that the subject of a work falls into more than one section, the entry has been duplicated and, similarly, 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

ABBREVIATIONS OF TITLES OF PERIODICALS, SERIES AND PUBLISHERS

DVjsDeutsche Vierteljahrsschrift
FMLSForum for Modern Language Studies
GLLGerman Life and Letters
MLRModern Language Review
NGSNew German Studies
OGSOxford German Studies
PEGSPublications of the English Goethe Society
ZfdAZeitschrift für deutsches Altertum
ZfdPhZeitschrift für deutsche Philologie
YWMLSThe Year's Work in Modern Language Studies

ABBREVIATIONS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES

BkBirkbeck College, London
GldsGoldsmiths, University of London
IGSInstitute of Germanic Studies, London
KCKing's College London
NUINational University of Ireland
QMWQueen Mary and Westfield College, London
RHRoyal Holloway, University of London
TCDTrinity College, Dublin
UCUniversity College London
UEAUniversity of East Anglia
UMISTUniversity of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
UWEUniversity of the West of England, Bristol