Ritchie Robertson is Professor of German at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor of St John''s College, Oxford. He is the author of Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1985) and Heine (1988), which have also been published in German translation, and The ''Jewish Question'' in German Literature, 1749-1939 (1999). He has also published numerous translations from German, including works by Heine and Hoffmann. He is an editor of The Modern Language Review.
Chronology
1. Mann in history T. J. Reed
2. Mann's intellectual world Paul Bishop
3. Mann's literary techniques Michael Minden
4. Mann's man's world: gender and sexuality Andrew Webber
5. Thomas Mann's early novellas Mark M. Anderson
6. Classicism and its pitfalls: Death in Venice Ritchie Robertson
7. The personal becomes political: Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician Alan Bance
8. Buddenbrooks: between realism and aestheticism Judith Ryan
9. The Magic Mountain Michael Beddow
10. Religion and culture: Joseph and his Brothers Wolf-Daniel Hartwich
11. Doctor Faustus Susan Von Rohr Scaff
Lotte in Wiemar Yahya Elsaghe
13. The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man Frederick Lubich
14. Mann as essayist Hinrich Siefken
15. Mann as diarist T. J. Reed
16. Mann in English Timothy Buck.
