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.

Alexandra Heimes, Ross Gillum Shields, Johannes Wankhammer (ed./eds.)

Ecology before Nature: From the Nexus of Things to the Web of Life
Special Issue: The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory

Vol. 101, Issue 3
Taylor & Francis, London 2026, 152 pages
ISSN 0016-8890 (Print); 1930-6962 (Online)
A book cover featuring the title and author in the top third, with a collection of various white and black stones and crystals below.
Siarhei Biareishyk

Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism

Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL 2026, 280 pages
ISBN 979-8-899-48037-9 (Paperback); 979-8-899-48038-6 (Hardcover); 979-8-899-48039-3 (eBook)
Johannes Becker

Präventionsfantasien
Zukunftssicherung in der Gegenwartsliteratur

Gegenwartsliteratur
De Gruyter, Berlin 2026, 409 pages
ISBN 978-3-119-14358-5 (Print); 978-3-112-21867-9 (eBook)
Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau

Erwin Schrödinger und die Versuchungen der (Wissenschafts-)Biografik
Vorurteilsgefüge und Mechanismen der Skandalisierung

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 49.2, pp. 135–293
2026
DOI 10.1002/bewi.70017
Bernardo Bianchi, Andreas Lipowsky, Oliver Precht (ed./eds.)

Die ontologische Wende
Indigene Kosmologien und die Dekolonisierung des Seins

suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft vol. 2491
Suhrkamp, Berlin 2026, 650 pages
ISBN 978-3-518-30091-6
Cover of Sophie Hartisch’s book “Star and Cosmos”: A graphic depiction of constellations on a beige background.
Sophie-Charlott Hartisch

Stern und Kosmos
Astrale Konstellationen in der Lyrik um 1900

Wallstein, Göttingen 2026, 636 pages
ISBN 978-3-8353-6100-3
Susanne Frank, Zaal Andronikashvili, Thomas Lahusen (ed./eds.)

The Soviet Literary Cosmopolis
Literature, Nation-Building and the Claim on the World

WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures vol. 26
De Gruyter, Berlin 2026, 395 pages
ISBN 978-3-1122-4205-6 (Print); 978-3-1122-4206-3 (eBook)
Catriona Corke, Ivana Perica, Philipp Wegmann (ed./eds.)

Literary Acts of Agency
Negotiating the Rule of Law

De Gruyter, Berlin 2026, 155 pages
ISBN 9783111506302 (Print); 9783111506692 (E-Book)
Book cover: Written at the top is “History in Dispute: Essays on the Historicization of Reinhart Koselleck, edited by Falko Schmieder” in German; at the bottom, Reinhart Koselleck leans against a bookshelf with his arms crossed and looking at the camera.
Falko Schmieder (ed./eds.)

Geschichte im Widerstreit
Beiträge zur Historisierung Reinhart Kosellecks

Wert der Vergangenheit vol. 13
Wallstein, Göttingen 2026, 351 pages
ISBN 978-3-8353-6053-2 (Print); 978-3-8353-8165-0 (PDF)
Cover of the Lukács Yearbook featuring a red-tinted portrait of Georg Lukács wearing glasses.
Patrick Eiden-Offe (ed./eds.)

Sattelzeit – 100 Jahre »Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein«
Schwerpunkt: Lukács-Jahrbuch 2024/2025

Jahrbuch der Internationalen Georg-Lukács-Gesellschaft, vol. 20
Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2026
ISBN 978-3-8498-2140-1
Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco (ed./eds.)

Dualla Misipo: Der Junge aus Duala. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
literatur für leser:innen

Vol. 47, Issue 2
Peter Lang, Berlin 2026, 104 pages
ISSN 0343-1657; eISSN 2364-7183
DOI 10.3726/lfl.2024.02.01
Tobias Wilke

Lautbilder und Maschinenschrift
Modelle digitaler Sprachlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert

Brill Fink, Paderborn 2026, 189 pages
ISBN 978-3-7705-6967-0 (Print); 978-3-8467-6967-6 (E-Book)