Pretexts for Writing

"Pretexts for Writing discusses the history of the literary and philosophical self-authored preface in the German speaking world around 1800 with an intensity and analytical depth previously unachieved in scholarship." -- Till Dembeck * University of Luxembourg *
"Recommended." * Choice *
"a study of tremendous academic rigor with original insights. it shows deep knowledge of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy and the many conversations in contemporary literary studies pertaining to them.it is an achievement in scholarship pertaining to the age of Goethe, romanticism, and literary studies at large." * The German Quarterly *
"This debut book, in short, contains much that is scintillant and surely announces the arrival of an important new scholarly voice in Germanistik." * Modern Language Review *
"This book is perceptive, timely, and ambitious: perceptive in that it zeroes in on serious gaps in research, the exploration of which may alter our views of eighteenth-century German literature." * Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch XLVIII *
"Pretexts for Writing is an insightful, original, and persuasive work-compelling pretexts for reading."
* Goethe Yearbook *
"Pretexts for Writing discusses the history of the literary and philosophical self-authored preface in the German speaking world around 1800 with an intensity and analytical depth previously unachieved in scholarship." -- Till Dembeck * University of Luxembourg *
"Recommended." * Choice *
"a study of tremendous academic rigor with original insights. it shows deep knowledge of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy and the many conversations in contemporary literary studies pertaining to them.it is an achievement in scholarship pertaining to the age of Goethe, romanticism, and literary studies at large." * The German Quarterly *
"This debut book, in short, contains much that is scintillant and surely announces the arrival of an important new scholarly voice in Germanistik." * Modern Language Review *
"This book is perceptive, timely, and ambitious: perceptive in that it zeroes in on serious gaps in research, the exploration of which may alter our views of eighteenth-century German literature." * Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch XLVIII *
"Pretexts for Writing is an insightful, original, and persuasive work-compelling pretexts for reading."
* Goethe Yearbook *