Books

The ZfL publishes research results from its projects in a variety of book formats, primarily as monographs, in the form of anthologies, or as supplements or special issues of scholarly journals. They appear in the ZfL’s series (“Literatur- und Kulturforschung” at Wallstein, “LiteraturForschung” at Kulturverlag Kadmos, until 2017 “Trajekte” at Fink) as well as with other publishers such as Fischer, Suhrkamp, and de Gruyter.

Lukas Schemper, Henning Trüper (ed./eds.)

The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics
Forum in: International Journal of Maritime History

Vol. 38, Issue 1
SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks 2026, 152 pages
ISSN 0843-8714 (Print); 2052-7756 (Online)
Margarete Vöhringer, Christof Windgätter (ed./eds.)

Glaswelten
Materielle Kultur zwischen Zeigen und Verbergen

Designwissen vol. 4
Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2026, 288 pages
ISBN 978-3-86599-601-5
Christoph Hesse, Klaus Bittermann (ed./eds.)

Umkämpfte Geschichte
Einsprüche gegen die Umdeutung des 7. Oktober

Theorie & Debatte vol. 1
Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2026, 304 pages
ISBN 978-3-89320-335-2
Oliver Precht (ed./eds.)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty als politischer Philosoph
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Vol. 73, Issue 5
De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025, 75 pages
ISSN 0012-1045; eISSN: 2192-1482
Cover of the academic journal Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 61, Number 3 (July 2025), special issue on the aesthetics and politics of humour in Walter Benjamin.
Kevin Drews, Szilvia Gellai (ed./eds.)

The Opportunities of Laughter: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Humour in Walter Benjamin
Special Issue: Forum for Modern Language Studies

Vol. 61, Issue 3
Oxford University Press, Oxford 2025, 168 pages
ISSN 0015-8518 (Print), 1471-6860 (Online)
Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles (ed./eds.)

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

CAPONEU Working Papers
2025
Magazine cover of Histoire sociale / Social History showing a passenger ship sinking in the ocean under a pale blue sky.
Nebiha Guiga, Henning Trüper, Aurélien Portelli (ed./eds.)

Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea since 1800
Histoire social/Social History

Vol. 58, Issue 119
University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2025, 244 pages
ISSN 0018-2257 (Print); 1918-6576 (Online)
Cover of the James Baldwin Review, Volume 11, Number 1 (2025), featuring an image of James Baldwin’s historical U.S. passport.
Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, Gianna Zocco (ed./eds.)

European Baldwins
James Baldwin Review

Vol. 11, Issue 1
Manchester University Press, Manchester 2025, 305 pages
ISSN 2056-9203 (Print), 2056-9211 (Online)
Cover of the Russian translation of Franziska Thun-Hohenstein's Shalamov biography with a portrait of the Soviet author.
Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
translated by Marina Koreneva

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Варлам Шаламов. Биография и поэтика

Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, Sankt Petersburg 2025, 536 pages
ISBN 978-5-89059-565-2
Ivana Perica

Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur
Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968

Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2025, 304 pages
ISBN 979-8-76512-392-8 (Print); 979-8-76512-390-4 (PDF); 979-8-76512-393-5 (epub & Mobi)
Book cover of Aurore Peyroles: Voyages au bout de la banlieue. In the center is a painting of a steamer sinking in front of a bridge.
Aurore Peyroles

Voyages au bout de la banlieue
Représentations romanesques de la banlieue parisienne (1820–1950)

Mimesis. Romanische Literaturen der Welt Bd. 127
De Gruyter, Berlin 2025, 343 pages
ISBN 978-3-111-56256-8 (Print); 9-783-111-56258-2 (eBook)
Cover of Lisa Schreiber's book “Measuring feelings.” A black and white image of a smiling man with a yellow grid of lines projected onto his face is set against a pink background.
Lisa Schreiber

Gefühle Vermessen
Zur Genealogie des Affective Computing

meson press, Lüneburg 2025, 196 pages
ISBN 978-3-95796-228-7 (Print); 978-3-95796-229-4 (PDF)
DOI 10.14619/2287