Explore the literature, history and culture of the German-speaking world through our scholarly publications.
Founded in 1979 by professors of German James N. Hardin and Gunther J. Holst, our Camden House imprint publishes on all aspects of German Studies.
Our list includes long-running collaborations with the Goethe Society of North America (The Goethe Yearbook), the International Brecht Society (The Brecht Yearbook) and the German Jewish Studies Workshop (Nexus). It also includes book series on German history, German film, German Jewish studies, women and gender studies, and culture and power.
New and forthcoming
Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany
Habituation in German Modernism
Violence Elsewhere 1
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Goethe Yearbook 31
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht, c.1350
The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert
Intimate Relations
Border Poetics in German and Polish Literature
Sebald’s Jews
Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism
Max Stirner and Nihilism
Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany
Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005
Featured series
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989
Women and Gender in German Studies
German History in Context
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