Published February 2024

Austrian Travel Writing
Edited by Florian Krobb and Caitriona Leahy 
Austrian Studies 31

including:

Review of Norbert Christian Wolf, Glanz und Elend der Aufklärung in Wien: Voraussetzungen—Institutionen—Texte
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919444

Published October 2023

Modern Language Review 118.4 

including:

Review of John Guillory, Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.1353/mlr.2023.a907849

Published July 2023

Modern Language Review 118.3 

including:

Review of Ian Ellison, Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.1353/mlr.2023.a901117

Published January 2023

Anthropocene Austria
Edited by Caitríona Ní Dhúill and Nicola Thomas
Austrian Studies 30

including:

Review of David S. Luft, The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History: From the Enlightenment to Anschluss
Ritchie Robertson

Published December 2021

Uncanny Valleys: Austrian Literature and Film in the New Millennium
Edited by Heide Kunzelmann and Lyn Marven
Austrian Studies 29

including:

Review of Franz Leander Fillafer, Aufklärung habsburgisch: Staatsbildung, Wissenskultur und Geschichtspolitik in Zentraleuropa 1750‒1850
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0199

From the Enlightenment to Modernism: Three Centuries of German Literature
Edited by Carolin Duttlinger, Kevin Hilliard, and Charlie Louth
Legenda (General Series)


Published December 2020

Fragments of Empire: Austrian Modernisms and the Habsburg Imaginary
Edited by Clemens Peck and Deborah Holmes
Austrian Studies 28

including:

Review of Steffen Höhne, Manfred Weinberg, Franz Kafka im interkulturellen Kontext
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.28.2020.0209

Published January 2020

Placing Schnitzler
Edited by Judith Beniston and Andrew Webber
Austrian Studies 27

including:

Edward Timms (1937–2018): A Memoir
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.27.2019.0237
Review of Jacques Le Rider, Karl Kraus. Phare et brûlot de la modernité viennoise
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.27.2019.0270

Modern Language Review 115.1

including:

Review of Peter Becher, Steppen Höhne, Jörg Krappmann, Manfred Weinberg, Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der Böhmischen Länder
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.115.1.0197

Published March 2019

Austria in Transit: Displacement and the Nation-State
Edited by Áine McMurtry and Deborah Holmes
Austrian Studies 26

including:

Review of Norbert Bachleitner, Daniel Syrovy, Petr Píša, Michael Wögerbauer, Die literarische Zensur in Österreich von 1751 bis 1848
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.26.2018.0270

Published July 2018

Modern Language Review 113.3

including:

Review of Christian Begemann and Davide Giuriato, Stifter-Handbuch: Leben — Werk — Wirkung
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.113.3.0684

Published February 2018

Celebrations: Festkultur in Austria
Edited by Florian Krobb and Deborah Holmes
Austrian Studies 25

including:

Catholic Festival Culture: the Reform of Catholic Festival Culture in Eighteenth-Century Austria: A Clash of Mentalities
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.25.2017.0025

Published July 2017

Modern Language Review 112.3

including:

Review of Steffen Höhne, Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, and Julius H. Schoeps, Max Brod (1884-1968): Die Erfindung des Prager Kreises
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.112.3.0744

Published May 2017

Enlightenment and Religion in German and Austrian Literature
Ritchie Robertson
Selected Essays 1

including:

Introduction
Ritchie Robertson
Aspects of Religious Toleration in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Ritchie Robertson
Virtue versus ‘Schwärmerei’ in Lessing’s Emilia Galotti
Ritchie Robertson
Literary Techniques and Complex Words in Goethe’s Faust
Ritchie Robertson
Wallenstein: Man of Destiny?
Ritchie Robertson
Schiller and the Jesuits
Ritchie Robertson
Women Warriors and the Origin of the State: Werner’s Wanda and Kleist’s Penthesilea
Ritchie Robertson
Theophanies in German Classicism
Ritchie Robertson
Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, and Nationalism in the German-speaking Enlightenment
Ritchie Robertson
Joseph II in Cultural Memory
Ritchie Robertson
Curiosity in the Austrian Enlightenment
Ritchie Robertson
Johann Pezzl: Enlightenment in the Satirical Mode
Ritchie Robertson
Joseph Rohrer and the Bureaucratic Enlightenment
Ritchie Robertson
Poetry and Scepticism in the Wake of the Austrian Enlightenment: Blumauer, Grillparzer, Lenau
Ritchie Robertson
The Complexities of Caroline Pichler: Die Schweden in Prag (1827)
Ritchie Robertson
Hoffmann’s Die Elixiere des Teufels and the Lasting Appeal of Conspiracy Theories
Ritchie Robertson
Faith and Fossils: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Poem ‘Die Mergelgrube’
Ritchie Robertson
Mörike and the Higher Criticism
Ritchie Robertson
‘Conversations with Jehovah’: Heine’s Quarrel with God
Ritchie Robertson
Nestroy’s Dickensian Realism
Ritchie Robertson
The Limits of Metaphor in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals
Ritchie Robertson
Jesuits, Jews and Thugs: Myths of Conspiracy and Infiltration from Dickens to Thomas Mann
Ritchie Robertson
Schnitzler’s Honesty
Ritchie Robertson
Savonarola in Munich: A Reappraisal of Thomas Mann’s Fiorenza
Ritchie Robertson
Sacrifice and Sacrament in The Magic Mountain
Ritchie Robertson
Kafka as Anti-Christian: The Judgement, The Metamorphosis, and the Aphorisms
Ritchie Robertson
Alfred Döblin’s Feeling for Snow: The Poetry of Fact in Berge Meere und Giganten
Ritchie Robertson
‘My True Enemy’: Freud and the Catholic Church, 1927-1939
Ritchie Robertson
List of Publications
Ritchie Robertson

Published April 2017

Modern Language Review 112.2

including:

Review of Susan Gustafson, Goethe's Families of the Heart
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.112.2.0534

Published February 2017

Jews, Jewish Difference and Austrian Culture: Literary and Historical Perspectives
Edited by Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman
Austrian Studies 24

including:

Review of Roland Innerhofer and Daniela Strigl, Sonderweg in Schwarzgelb? Auf der Suche nach einem österreichischen Naturalismus in der Literatur
Ritchie Robertson

Published January 2017

Modern Language Review 112.1

including:

Review of Maurice Edwards, Christian Dietrich Grabbe: His Life and his Works
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.112.1.0283
Review of Marek Nekula, Robert Russell and Carly McLaughlin, Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts: Studies in Language and Literature
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.112.1.0286

Published March 2016

Translating Austria
Edited by Florian Krobb and Deborah Holmes
Austrian Studies 23

including:

Obituary: Carl E. Schorske, 1915–2015
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.23.2015.0198

Published September 2015

Fontane and Cultural Mediation: Translation and Reception in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Edited by Ritchie Robertson and Michael White
Germanic Literatures 8

including:

Introduction
Ritchie Robertson, Michael White
Nietzsche and the Scottish Enlightenment
Ritchie Robertson

Published July 2015

Modern Language Review 110.3

including:

Review of Simon Richter and Richard Block, Goethe's Ghosts: Reading and the Persistence of Literature
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.110.3.0893

Published December 2014

Elfriede Jelinek in the Arena: Sport, Cultural Understanding and Translation to Page and Stage
Edited by Allyson Fiddler and Karen Jürs-Munby
Austrian Studies 22

including:

Review of Irène Cagneau and Marc Lacheny, Les relations de Johann Nestroy avec la France
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.22.2014.0217

Published October 2014

Modern Language Review 109.4

including:

Review of William J. McGrath, Celia Applegate, Stephanie Frontz, and Suzanne Marchand, German Freedom and the Greek Ideal: The Cultural Legacy from Goethe to Mann
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.4.1121

Published July 2014

Modern Language Review 109.3

including:

Review of Anja Bischof, Funktion und Bedeutung von Erinnerung im erzählerischen Werk Johannes Urzidils
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.3.0860

Published April 2014

Modern Language Review 109.2

including:

Review of David Horton, Thomas Mann in English: A Study in Literary Translation
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.2.0563
Review of Matthias Schuster, Franz Kafkas Handschrift zum ‘Schloss’
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.2.0567

Published January 2014

Modern Language Review 109.1

including:

Review of Christopher D. Johnson, Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.1.0279
Review of Thomas Mann, Thomas Sprecher, Hans R. Vaget, and Cornelia Bernini, Briefe
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.1.0287