Translation of: Geschichte der deutschen Literaturkritik (1730- 1980)
Includes index.
From classicist to classical literary criticism, 1730-1906 / by Klaus L. Berghahn -- The concept of literary criticism in German Romanticism, 1795-1810 / by Jochen Schulte-Sasse -- Literary criticism in the epoch of liberalism, 1820-70 / by Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- Literary criticism from empire to dictatorship, 1870-1933 / by Russell A. Berman -- Literary criticism from 1933 to the present / by Bernhard Zimmermann