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In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the German Enlightenment.
List of contents
Introduction: Literary Historiography, the Canon, and the Rest - Johannes Birgfeld and Michael Wood
PART 1. POETRY
Curing both Body and Soul. The Physician as Poet in the Works of Daniel Wilhelm Triller - Kristin Eichhorn
Daniel Stoppe's Fables: A "Second-Tier" Version of the Genre in the Early Enlightenment? - Stephanie Blum
"Nicht unsrer Lesewelt, und nicht der Ewigkeit": Late Style in Gleim's
Zeit- and
Sinngedichte (1792-1803) - Ellen Pilsworth
PART 2. THE NOVEL
Difficulties of a Statesman: Johann Michael von Loen and
Der redliche Mann am Hofe - Ritchie Robertson
Expanding the Eighteenth-Century Novel between England and Germany: Sentiment, Experience, and the Self - Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge
An Unoriginal Modernity: The Novelist-Translator Friedrich von Oertel - Leonard von Morze
PART 3. DRAMA AND THEATER
Theater for an Urban Audience: Adam Gottfried Uhlichs
Der Jungfernstieg and
Der Götterkrieg - Johannes Birgfeld
Stepping Out of
Götz's Shadow: Jacob Maier, the
Ritterstück, and the Historical Drama - Michael Wood
"You can go to hell with your Chinese bridge": August von Kotzebue's Most Successful Play
Menschenhaß und Reue and the European Garden Revolution - Julia Bohnengel
PART 4. PHILOSOPHY AND CRITICISM
A Troll Emerges: The Beginning of August Friedrich Cranz's Career as a Provocateur - Jonathan Blake Fine
Second-Tier Writing in Catholic Germany: Eulogius Schneider (1756-1794) as Professor of Aesthetics and Poet - J. C. Lees
Performativity and "Poetic" Epistemology: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten's Response to Moses Mendelssohn's Aesthetics - Joanna Raisbeck
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Michael Wood, Johannes Birgfeld
