Explores the works of W.G. Sebald, one of the most prominent and enigmatic German- language writers of recent decades.

Introduction: Fluchtträume/Traumfluchten; Journeys to the Undiscover'd Country
Die Kunst des Fliegens by W. G. Sebald
Peripatetic Liminality: Sebald and the Tradition of the Literary Walk
W. G. Sebald: The Anti-Tourist
"A Wrong Turn of the Wheel": Sebald's Journeys of (In)Attention
If You Come to a Spa: Displacing the Cure in Schwindel. Gefühle. and Austerlitz
Campi Deserti: Polar Landscapes and the Limits of Knowledge in Sebald and Ransmayr
"Eine Art Eingang zur Unterwelt": Katabasis in Austerlitz
Convergence Insufficiency: On Seeing Passages between W. G. Sebald and the "Travel Writer" Bruce Chatwin
Tripping: On Sebald's "Stifter"
Adventure, Imprisonment, and Melancholy: Heart of Darkness and Die Ringe des Saturn
Mapping Historical Networks in Die Ringe des Saturn
Topographical Anxiety and Dysfunctional Systems: Die Ausgewanderten and Freud's Little Hans
While the Hidden Horrors of History are Briefly Illuminated: The Poetics of Wandering in Austerlitz and Die Ringe des Saturn
Works Cired
Notes on the Contributors
Index