Jeffrey L. Sammons

Jeffrey L (eonard) Sammons (born November 9, 1936 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American literary scholar .

academic career

Sammons majored in German literature at Yale College , where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1958 and a doctorate in 1962 . From 1961 to 1964 he worked as a research assistant at Brown University in Providence . In 1964 he returned to Yale University , where he became a full professor in 1969 and headed the department for Germanic languages ​​and literatures until 1977 and again from 1988 to 1991. Sammons, whose research work was honored with a Guggenheim grant , retired at the end of 2001.

Heine research

Sammons, who specialized in German-language literature of the 19th century, dedicated a substantial part of his publications to the writer Heinrich Heine . Of his two extensive monographs with the title Heinrich Heine , the first ( The Elusive Poet , 1969) deals more with the work and the second more with the life of the author ( A Modern Biography , 1979). In 1982, Sammons presented an annotated bibliography of secondary literature on Heine for the period from 1956 to 1982. Since 1964 he has also published a number of articles on Heine, many of which have also appeared in German journals and edited volumes. His most important German publication in this context is the volume zu Heine in the "Metzler Collection" from 1991.

Publications (selection)

To Heinrich Heine

• Heinrich Heine, The Elusive Poet. New Haven, 1969.
• Heinrich Heine, A Modern Biography. Princeton, 1979. ISBN 0-691-06321-4 .
• Heinrich Heine, A Selected Critical Bibliography of Secondary Literature, 1956-1980 . New York (et al.) 1982. ISBN 0-8240-9286-4 .
• Heinrich Heine. Stuttgart, 1991. ISBN 3-476-10261-0 .
• Heinrich Heine, Alternative Perspectives 1985–2005. Würzburg, 2006. ISBN 3-8260-3212-8 . (Collection of articles)

On other authors and topics

• The Night Watch of Bonaventure, a structural interpretation. The Hague, 1965.
• Six Essays on the Young German Novel . Chapel Hill, 1975. ISBN 0-8078-8075-2 .
• Literary Sociology and Practical Criticism, An Inquiry . Bloomington, 1977. ISBN 0-253-33564-7 .
• Imagination and History. Selected Papers on Nineteenth-Century German Literature . New York (et al.) 1988. ISBN 0-8204-0768-2 .
• The Shifting Fortunes of Wilhelm Raabe. A History of Criticism as a Cautionary Tale. Columbia, SC, 1992. ISBN 1-879751-08-9 .
• Ideology, mimesis, fantasy. Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America . Chapel Hill, 1998. ISBN 0-8078-8121-X .
• (Ed.): The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , the basis of modern anti-Semitism. A fake, text and comment. Wallstein, Göttingen 1998. ISBN 3-89244-191-X .
• Friedrich Spielhagen , Novelist of Germany's False Dawn. Tübingen, 2004. ISBN 3-484-32117-2 .
• Alfred Meissner . Wehrhahn, Hannover 2014. (= Meteore. 16.) ISBN 978-3-86525-426-9 .

Web links

• Bio Jeffrey L. Sammons in Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (Engl.)
• Sammons at the Department of Germanic Languages ​​and Literatures at Yale University (English)
• Literature by and about Jeffrey L. Sammons in the catalog of the German National Library