Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Note on the Text

pp ix-x

Introduction: Literary Historiography, the Canon, and the Rest

pp 1-16

Part I - Poetry

pp 17-18

Curing Both Body and Soul: The Physician as Poet in the Works of Daniel Wilhelm Triller

pp 19-34

Daniel Stoppe's Fables: A “Second-Tier” Version of the Genre in the Early Enlightenment?

pp 35-51

“Nicht unsrer Lesewelt, und nicht der Ewigkeit”: Late Style in Gleim's Zeit- and Sinngedichte (1792–1803)

pp 52-68

Part II - The Novel

pp 69-70

Difficulties of a Statesman: Johann Michael von Loen and Der redliche Mann am Hofe

pp 71-89

Expanding the Eighteenth-Century Novel between England and Germany: Sentiment, Experience, and the Self

pp 90-106

An Unoriginal Modernity: The Novelist-Translator Friedrich von Oertel

pp 107-124

Part III - Drama and Theater

pp 125-126

Theater for an Urban Audience: Adam Gottfried Uhlich's Der Jungfernstieg and Der Götterkrieg

pp 127-144

Stepping Out of Götz's Shadow: Jacob Maier, the Ritterstück, and the Historical Drama

pp 145-161

“You can go to hell with your Chinese bridge”: August von Kotzebue's Most Successful Play Menschenhaß und Reue and the European Garden Revolution

pp 162-178

Part IV - Philosophy and Criticism

pp 179-180

A Troll Emerges: The Beginning of August Friedrich Cranz's Career as a Provocateur

pp 181-198

Second-Tier Writing in Catholic Germany: Eulogius Schneider (1756–1794) as Professor of Aesthetics and Poet

pp 199-212

Performativity and “Poetic” Epistemology: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten's Response to Moses Mendelssohn's Aesthetics

pp 213-230

Notes on the Contributors

pp 231-234