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Best, Alan, and Wolfschütz, Hans, eds. Modern Austrian Writing: Literature and Society after 1945. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1980. Surveys influence of major Austrian writers on German literature.

Demetz, Peter. After the Fires: Recent Writing on the Germanies, Austria and Switzerland. Helen & Kurt Wolff/Harcourt, 1986. The origins, writers, themes of post-war literature.

Domandi, Agnes K., ed. Modern German Literature. New York, Ungar, 1972. Works of more than 200 contemporary authors from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Field, G. Wallis. A Literary History of Germany: the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1890. New York: Harper &Row, 1975. Examination of literary styles and typical radical and conservative authors.

Furness, Raymond, and Humble, Malcolm. A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature. London: Routledge, 1991. Leading guide to literature of great diversity.

Garland, Henry, and Garland, Mary. The Oxford Companion to German Literature. Oxford University Press, Standard reference work, with biographies and articles on works, movements, and culture. Includes bibliographies.

Hardin, James, and Mews, Siegfried. Nineteenth-century German Writers to 1840. Detroit; London: Gale Research, 1993. Solid volume in series of dictionaries of literary biography.

Kohlschmidt, Werner. A History of German Literature, 1760-1850. Holmes & Meier, 1975. Discussion of major writers and prime works.

Magill, C. P. German Literature. Oxford University Press, 1974. Guide to major works from Middle Ages to the present, with translations of quotations.

Parkes, K. Stuart. Writers and Politics in West Germany. London: Croom Helm, 1986. Good study of post-war West German literature and its concerns.

Parsley, J. M. S. Germany: a Companion to German Studies. Methuen, 1972. Successor to Bithall's work of same title (1932).

Radandt, Friedhelm. From Baroque to Storm and Stress, 1720-1775. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Literary and philosophical movements.

Reed, T. J. The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar, 1775-1832. London: Croom Helm; Oxford: Clarendon Press, Study of the focus of one of the greatest periods in German literature.

Taylor, Ronald. Literature and Society in Germany, 1918-1945. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1981. Examination of social origins of various literary movements.