Inmitten des ‚Methodenkampfs‘. Literatursoziologie im Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte (1925–1931) und Sachwörterbuch für Deutschkunde (1930)

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Abstract The article examines the admission of ‘sociology of literature’ in the standard literary reference works of the Weimar Republic. In addition to handbooks, these include above all the Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte and the Sachwörterbuch für Deutschkunde. The study examines how the method is understood, whom it is associated with, what examples are given, and what significance it had in the methodological discourse at the time.