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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008461303321

Titolo

German literature of the eighteenth century : the enlightenment and sensibility / / edited by Barbara Becker-Cantarino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, N.Y., : Camden House, 2005

ISBN

1-281-77061-2

9786611770617

1-57113-643-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The Camden House history of German literature ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

Becker-CantarinoBarbara

Disciplina

830.9/006

Soggetti

German literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Enlightenment - Germany

Enlightenment - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS ""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS  ""; ""PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""Introduction: German Literature in the Era of  Enlightenment and Sensibility""; ""Enlightenment Thought and Natural Law from Leibniz to Kant and its Influence on  German Literature""; ""Gottsched's Literary Reforms: The Beginning of Modern German Literature""; ""The Literary Marketplace and the Journal, Medium of the Enlightenment""; ""Religious and Secular Poetry and Epic (1700-1780)""; ""Literary Developments in Switzerland from Bodmer, Breitinger, and Haller  to Gessner, Rousseau, and Pestalozzi""

""Lessing, Bourgeois Drama, and the National Theater""""Musical Culture and Thought""; ""The Era of Sensibility and the Novel of Self-Fashioning ""; ""Enlightenment in Austria: Cultural Identity and a National Literature""; ""Eighteenth-Century Germany in its Historical Context""; ""The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Critique from Hamann and Herder to the Frankfurt School""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY ""; ""Primary Literature""; ""Secondary Literature""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX ""

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume contains essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.