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  Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. ix + 395 pages + 15 b/w illustrations. $80.00.

  Christoph Weber

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 669-671; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.669
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  Wirklichkeit und Wahrnehmung. Neue Perspektiven auf Theodor Storm. Herausgegeben von Elisabeth Strowick und Ulrike Vedder. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. 236 Seiten. SFR 75,00.

  Robert L. Jamison

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 671-673; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.671
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  Women, Emancipation and the German Novel 1871–1910: Protest Fiction in its Cultural Context. By Charlotte Woodford. London: Legenda, 2014. ix + 190 pages. $99.00.

  Jeffrey L. Sammons

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 673-676; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.673
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  Popular Fiction in the Age of Bismarck: E. Marlitt and her Narrative Strategies. By Terrill John May. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2014. 381 pages. $81.95.

  Kirsten Belgum

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 676-678; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.676
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  Good Girls, Good Germans: Girls’ Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany. By Jennifer Drake Askey, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. x + 201 pages + 5 b/w illustrations. $85.00.

  Daniela Richter

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 678-680; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.678
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  The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century. Edited by Charlotte Woodford and Benedict Schofield. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. x + 286 pages + 11 b/w illustrations. $85.00.

  Shane D. Peterson

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 680-682; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.680
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  Die Sprache der Großstadt. Zeitkritik und ästhetische Moderne in den frühnaturalistischen Berlinromanen Max Kretzers. Von Patrick Küppers. Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 2014. 320 Seiten. €29,95.

  Jost Hermand

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 682-684; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.682
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  Der produktive Kosmos der Gina Kaus. Schriftstellerin – Pädagogin – Revolutionärin. Von Veronika Hofeneder. Hildesheim: Olms, 2013. 331 Seiten. €38,00., and: Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933. By Jill Suzanne Smith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xii + 221 pages + 14 b/w illustrations. $27.95.

  Erhard Schütz

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 684-690; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.684
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  Stefan George. Eine Biographie. Von Kai Kauffmann. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2014. 252 Seiten + 41 Abbildungen. €24,90.

  Rolf J. Goebel

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 690-692; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.690
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  Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany. By Steve Choe. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. vii + 274 pages + 50 b/w illustrations. $120.00.

  Daniel H. Magilow

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 692-694; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.692
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  Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918. Edited by Florian Krobb and Elaine Martin. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 263 pages + 9 b/w and 7 color illustrations. €34,80.

  Jill Suzanne Smith

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 694-696; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.694
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  Heinrich Lersch (1889–1936). Eine literaturpolitische Biographie. Von Steffen Elbing. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 322 Seiten + 6 s/w Abbildungen. £39,80.

  Jost Hermand

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 697-698; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.697
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  Ernst Toller and German Society: Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914–1939. By Robert Ellis. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. ix + 239 pages. $80.00.

  Michael McGillen

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 698-700; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.698
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  Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany. By Frances Guerin. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xxiii + 343 pages +27 b/w illustrations and 16 color plates. $27.95.

  Darcy Buerkle

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 700-703; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.700
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  Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature. By Mary Cosgrove. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. x + 234 pages. $75.00.

  Sonja Boos

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 703-704; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.703
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  German Text Crimes: Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s. Edited by Tom Cheesman. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 242 pages. $73.00 hardcover, $66.00 e-Book.

  Siegfried Mews

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 704-706; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.704
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  Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti: un confronto. Edited by Francesco Bono, Luigi Cimmino, and Giorgio Pangaro. Soveria Mannelli, Italy: Rubbettino, 2014. 238 pages + 6 b/w illustrations. £14,00., and: Franz Kafka / Orson Welles: Il Processo. Edited by Luigi Cimmino, Daniele Dottorini, and Giorgio Pangaro. Soveria Mannelli, Italy: Rubbettino, 2010. 201 pages. £14,00.

  Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 706-709; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.706
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  Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. By Maria Fritsche. New York: Berghahn, 2013. xi + 274 pages + 20 b/w illustrations. $95.00.

  Erik N. Jensen

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 709-710; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.709
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  New Austrian Film. Edited by Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2011. vii + 410 pages. $140.00.

  Jack Davis

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 710-712; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.710
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  Romanisches Erzählen. Peter Handke und die epische Tradition. Von Thorsten Carstensen. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013. 398 Seiten + 13 s/w Abbildungen. €29,90.

  Katharina Pektor

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 712-714; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.712
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  Klang – Bild – Sprache. Musikalisch-akustische Konfigurationen in der Literatur und im Film der Gegenwart. Von Ulrich Schönherr. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014. 192 Seiten. €29,80.

  Marcel Krings

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 714-717; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.714
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  Berlin School Glossary: An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema. Edited by Roger F. Cook, Lutz Koepnick, Kristin Kopp, and Brad Prager. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xiii + 291 pp. $35.50.

  David Clarke

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 717-719; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.717
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  Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema. By Daniela Berghahn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. viii + 224 pages + 27 b/w illustrations. £70.00.

  Randall Halle

  Monatshefte, December 2015, 107 (4) 719; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.107.4.719