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The modern German historical novel: Paradigms, problems and perspectives . David Roberts and Phillip Thomson, eds. New York and Oxford: Berg, 1991. Pp. 230.

The modern German historical novel is an anthology of recent essays in chapter form reflecting on the terms used in the title (contributing authors: David Roberts, Agnes Heller, Paul Michael Liitzeler, Harro Miiller, Bernd Hiippauf, Roger Hillman, Reinhold Grimm, Peter Morgan, Martin Travers, Pavel Petr, Philip Thomson, John Milfull, Leslie Bodi). The difficulty of defining the genre "historical novel" is the common thread between the essays, and the starting point in a broad discussion of the terms history, novel, modern and even German. These essays examine the historical novel against a larger investigation of modernism and postmodernism, history and post-histoire, guiding the reader through the various debates surrounding these subjects rather than strictly defining the historical novel.