German literature of the eighteenth century : the enlightenment and sensibility
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German literature of the eighteenth century : the enlightenment and sensibility
(Camden House history of German literature, v. 5)
Camden House, 2005
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Bibliography: p. [309]-328
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New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.
The Enlightenment was based on the use of reason, common sense, and "natural law," and was paralleled by an emphasis on feelings and the emotions in religious, especially Pietist circles. Progressive thinkers in England, France, and later in Germany began to assail the absolutism of the state and the orthodoxy of the Church; in Germany the line led from Leibniz, Thomasius, and Wolff to Lessing and Kant, and eventually to the rise of an educated upper middle class. Literary developments encompassed the emergence of a national theater, literature, and a common literary language. This became possible in part because of advances in literacy and education, especially among bourgeois women, and the reorganization of book production and the book market. This major new reference work provides a fresh look at the major literary figures, works, and cultural developments from around 1700 up to the late Enlightenment.They trace the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking countries: from occasional and learned literature under the influence of French Neoclassicism to the establishment of a new German drama, religious epic and secular poetry, and the sentimentalist novel of self-fashioning. The volume includes the new, stimulating works of women, a chapter on music and literature, chapters on literary developments in Switzerland and in Austria, and a chapter onreactions to the Enlightenment from the 19th century to the present. The recent revaluing of cultural and social phenomena affecting literary texts informs the presentations in the individual chapters and allows for the inclusionof hitherto neglected but important texts such as essays, travelogues, philosophical texts, and letters.
Contributors: Kai Hammermeister, Katherine Goodman, Helga Brandes, Rosmarie Zeller, Kevin Hilliard, Francis Lamport, Sarah Colvin, Anna Richards, Franz M. Eybl, W. Daniel Wilson, Robert Holub.
Barbara Becker-Cantarino is Research Professor in German at the Ohio State University.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Rise of German Literature in the Era of Enlightenment and Sensibility: Recent Research and Revaluations - Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Enlightened Thought and Natural Law from Leibnitz to Kant and its Influence on Literature - Kai Hammermeister
Neoclassicism, the Gottscheds, and New Beginnings in German Literature - Katherine R. Goodman
The Literary Marketplace, New Media, and New Genres - Helga Brandes
Literary Developments in Switzerland from Bodmer, Breitinger, and Haller to Gessner, Rousseau, and Pestalozzi - Rosmarie Zeller
Religious and Secular Poetry and Epic, 1700-1780 - Kevin F. Hilliard
Lessing, Bourgeois Drama, and the National Theater - F. J. Lamport
Musical Culture and Thought in Eighteenth-Century Germany - Sarah Colvin
The Era of Sensibility and the Novel of Self-Fashioning - Anna Richards
Enlightenment in Austria: Cultural Identity and National Literature - Franz M. Eybl
Eighteenth-Century Germany in its Historical Context - W. Daniel Wilson
The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Critique from Herder and Hamann to Horkheimer/Adorno and Habermas - Robert C. Holub
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