From the Book - First paperback edition.
The Carolingian period and the early middle ages (750-1100) / Brian F. Murdoch --
The High and later middle ages (1100-1450) / Nigel F. Palmer --
The Early modern period (1450-1720) / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly --
The German enlightenment (1720-1790) / Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres --
Aesthetic humanism (1790-1830) / Nicholas Saul --
Revolution, resignation, realism (1830-1890) / Gail Finney --
From Naturalism to National Socialism (1890-1945) / Ritchie Robertson --
The Literature of the German Democratic Republic (1945-1990) / Helen Feherbary --
German writing in the West (1945-1990) / Moray McGowan.