Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 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
- Contributors
- Index
Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 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
- Contributors
- Index
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- German Literature of the Eighteenth CenturyThe Enlightenment and Sensibility, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004