Spring 2010
For more information about WiG Book Reviews, please contact the Reviews Editor, Alexandra M. Hill, University of Portland (bookreviews(AT)womeningerman.org)

Elizabeth Bridges on

Breger, Claudia, Irmele Krüger-Fürhoff, and Tanja Nusser, eds. Engineering Life: Narrationen vom Menschen in Biomedizin, Kultur und Literatur. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2008. 217 pp. ISBN: 3865990444 paperback, €22.50.

Friederike Eigler on

Gerstenberger, Katharina. Writing The New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature. Rochester, NY: Camden, 2008. 209 pp. ISBN 978-1-57113-381-6 hard cover, $75.00.

Beate Brunow on

Horsley, Joey, and Luise Pusch, eds. Berühmte Frauenpaare. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004. 317 pp. ISBN: 3-518-39904-7 paperback, €10.

Ulrike Brisson on

Pusch, Luise F. Der Kaiser sagt Ja und andere Glossen. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009. 144 Seiten, ISBN-13: 978-3835304550 Taschenbuch, € 9.90.

Caroline Schaumann on

Mahlendorf, Ursula. The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood. University Park: The Pennsylvania State UP, 2009. 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-271-03447-8 cloth, $29.95.

Christine Rinne on

Allert, Beate, ed. Comparative Cinema: How American University Students View Foreign Films. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-7734-5166-8 hardcover, $119.95.

Maria Stehle on

Mennel, Barbara. Cities and Cinema. Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City. London/New York: Routledge, 2008. 245 pp. ISBN: 9780415364461 paperback, $49.95.

Sonja Ellen Klocke on

Gerstenberger, Katharina and Patricia Herminghouse, eds. German Literature in a New Century. Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. 300 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-547-7 hardcover, $90.00.

Imke Brust on

Kowalik, Jill Anne. Theology and Dehumanization: Trauma, Grief, and Pathological Mourning in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century German Thought and Literature. Ed. Gail K. Hart, Ursula Mahlendorf, Thomas P. Saine and Hans Medick. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 186 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-59092-8 hardcover, $57.95

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger on

Schwartz, Agatha. Shifting Voices. Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-siècle Austria and Hungary. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 278 pp. ISBN: 9780773532861 hardcover, $80.00.

Daniel Kline on

Mathäs, Alexander. Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 255 pp. ISBN: 9780874130140 hardcover, $56.50.