Aims & Scope

The early years of the Social History of German Literature and its 'archive' - founded in 1976 by Georg Jäger, Alberto Martino and Friedrich Sengle - were part of an interdisciplinary movement and an altered understanding of the term literature. Since then the intellectual climate in cultural and literary studies has changed significantly. The cardinal problem of a social history orientated literary history, but with a balance between literary texts and social historical context, remains. The spectrum of the Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL) has always ranged from the literature of the Middle Ages to the present, although its orientation on modern social theory has led the IASL increasingly to see itself as a forum for current German literature.

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