Download or read book A History of Histories of German Literature written by Michael S. Batts and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of German literature is frequently based on the hundreds of general histories of German literature that have been published since the genre first appeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In A History of Histories of German Literature Michael Batts attempts to describe the various forms which these histories took between 1835 and 1914, not only in Germany but in other countries, and show how these forms developed.