Ellis Shookman

Professor

Appointments

Professor of German Studies

Education

B.A. Yale University (summa cum laude)

Freie Universität Berlin (Fulbright Fellow)

Ph.D. Yale University (Whiting Dissertation Fellow)

Publications

Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland (University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

Thomas Mann's Death in Venice : A Novella and Its Critics (Camden House, 2003).

Thomas Mann's Death in Venice : A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 2004).

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Ed. and Trans., Eighteenth-Century German Prose, Volume 10 of The German Library (Continuum, 1992).

Ed., The Faces of Physiognomy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Johann Caspar Lavater  (Camden House, 1993).

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"Hermann von Pückler-Muskau." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 133, Nineteenth Century German Writers to 1840, edited by James Hardin and Siegfried Mews, 233-42 (Gale, 1993).

"Lüneburg Leatherstocking: Arno Schmidt and James Fenimore Cooper." In Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz, edited by Nancy Kaiser and David Wellbery, 249-74. (University of Michigan Press, 1992).

"The Magic Mountain: A 'Humoristic Counterpart' to Death in Venice." In Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain: A Casebook, edited by Hans Rudolf Vaget, 219-44. (Oxford University Press, 2008).

"Personal Classicism: Greek and Roman Antiquity in Wieland's Correspondence." In Weimar Classicism: Studies in Goethe, Schiller, Forster, Berlepsch, Wieland, Herder, and Steiner, edited by David Gallagher, 99-122 (Mellen, 2011).

"Intertextuality, Agathon, and Ion: Wieland's Novel, Euripides's Tragedy, Plato's Dialogue," Lessing Yearbook 22 (1990): 199-217.

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"Barthes's Semiological Myth of Brecht's Epic Theater." Monatshefte 81.4 (1989): 459-75.

"Making History in Hans Fallada's Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben: Schleswig-Holstein, Nazism, and the Landvolkbewegung." German Studies Review 13.3 (1990): 461-80.

"Smiley lächelt: John le Carré and German Literature." Oxford German Studies 25 (1996): 135-64.

"Goethe's Baccalaureus and the Concept of Romantic Irony in Faust." European Romantic Review 20.4 (2009): 491-511.

"The Role of References to German Literature in Longfellow's Hyperion." ANGERMION 2 (2009): 111-26.

"Lays of the Land: Germany in Longfellow's Poems of Places." ANGERMION 3 (2010): 97-115.

"Attitudes To North America in Wieland's Teutscher Merkur." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 34.1 (2011): 81-100.

"Brook Farm and Beyond: German Thought and Literature in The Harbinger, 1845-1849." German Studies Review 34.3 (2011): 373-94.

Works in Progress

"Over the Rainbow: Thomas Mann's Prismatic Concept of Physiognomy" (article)

Themes and Variations: German Literature Adapted as Operatic Libretti in English (book)

Contact

Ellis.R.Shookman@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2914
Dartmouth Hall, Room 204
HB

Departments

German Studies