Now available in paperback, this collection provides a thorough assessment of W.G. Sebald's achievement through newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on his work.

Now available in paperback

Acknowledgements; A Note on References and Translations; W. G. Sebald Chronology; Part I: Contexts; 1. J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead, Introduction; 2. George Szirtes, Meeting Austerlitz; 3. Martin Swales, Theoretical Reflections on the Work of W. G. Sebald; Part II: Landscape and Nature; 4.Greg Bond, On the Misery of Nature and the Nature of Misery; 5. Colin Riordan, Ecocentrism in Sebald's After Nature; 6. Simon Ward, Ruins and Poetics in the Work of W.G. Sebald; Part III: Travel and Walking; 7. John Beck, Reading Room: Erosion and Sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk; 8. Massimo Leone, Textual Wanderings: A Vertiginous Reading of W. G. Sebald; 9. John Zilcosky, Sebald's Uncanny Travels, or the Impossibility of Being Lost; Part IV: Intertextuality and Intermediality; 10. Martin Klebes, Infinite Journey: From Kafka to Sebald; 11. Russell Kilbourn, Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in Austerlitz; 12. Carolin Duttlinger, Traumatic Photographs: Remembrance and the Technical Media in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz; Part V: Haunting, Trauma, Memory; 13. Wilfried Wilms, Taboo and Repression in On the Natural History of Destruction; 14. Jan Ceuppens, Seeing Things: Spectres and Angels in W.G. Sebald's Prose Fiction; 15. Maya Barzilai, Facing the Past and the Female Spectre in The Emigrants; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.