Astrid KöhlerAstrid Köhler is Professor of German Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her research interests are divided between the cultural history of late 18th & 19th Century Europe and contemporary GermanLiterature on the other. With regard to the former, she has published on salons and other forms of sociability as well as on public rituals and festivities, literary journals and prose fiction of the period. Read More Read Less