Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literaryand narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).

• Introduction: In Defense of MelancholyThe Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der ZwiebelThe Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and MasanteThe Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des WiderstandsFrom the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the "Racial Century": Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald's WorkEpilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das EigentlicheBibliographyIndex

[D]etailed and cogent . . . . Throughout the study, textual analysis is enhanced by careful attention to the literary, political, and cultural context, and by details drawn from archival material about the writers' knowledge and discussion of melancholy traditions. Cosgrove's strident engagement with earlier critical reception is particularly noteworthy, not least as her study responds to a lack of scholarly interest in post-war Holocaust memory and melancholy, an association that she shows to be worthy of further attention. . . . The monograph is an original and serious work which provides a highly detailed perspective on post-war writing about the poetics of remembrance after the Holocaust. As such, it makes an important contribution to the extensive body of recent criticism on post-war German memory culture.

Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literaryand narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).

• Introduction: In Defense of MelancholyThe Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der ZwiebelThe Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and MasanteThe Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des WiderstandsFrom the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the "Racial Century": Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald's WorkEpilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das EigentlicheBibliographyIndex

[D]etailed and cogent . . . . Throughout the study, textual analysis is enhanced by careful attention to the literary, political, and cultural context, and by details drawn from archival material about the writers' knowledge and discussion of melancholy traditions. Cosgrove's strident engagement with earlier critical reception is particularly noteworthy, not least as her study responds to a lack of scholarly interest in post-war Holocaust memory and melancholy, an association that she shows to be worthy of further attention. . . . The monograph is an original and serious work which provides a highly detailed perspective on post-war writing about the poetics of remembrance after the Holocaust. As such, it makes an important contribution to the extensive body of recent criticism on post-war German memory culture.

Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literaryand narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).

• Introduction: In Defense of MelancholyThe Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der ZwiebelThe Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and MasanteThe Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des WiderstandsFrom the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the "Racial Century": Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald's WorkEpilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das EigentlicheBibliographyIndex

[D]etailed and cogent . . . . Throughout the study, textual analysis is enhanced by careful attention to the literary, political, and cultural context, and by details drawn from archival material about the writers' knowledge and discussion of melancholy traditions. Cosgrove's strident engagement with earlier critical reception is particularly noteworthy, not least as her study responds to a lack of scholarly interest in post-war Holocaust memory and melancholy, an association that she shows to be worthy of further attention. . . . The monograph is an original and serious work which provides a highly detailed perspective on post-war writing about the poetics of remembrance after the Holocaust. As such, it makes an important contribution to the extensive body of recent criticism on post-war German memory culture.