Eighteenth Century German Prose: Heinse, La Roche, Wieland, and others

Zusammenfassung Foreword by Dennis F. MahoneyThe German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forwards by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Excerpts six texts (by La Roche, Forster, Wieland, Moritz, Heinse, and Braker) that show a cross-section of forms and themes that are representative as well as special examples of 18th-century German prose. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Dennis F. Mahoney Introduction: Ellis Shookman   SOPHIE VON LA ROCHE From The History of Miss von Sternheim Glossary Translated by Ellis Shookman   GEORG FORSTER From A Voyage round the World Glossary   CHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELAND The Case of teh Ass's Shadow From The History of the Abderites Glossary Translated by Ellis Shookman   KARL PHILIPP MORITZ From Anton Reiser Glossary Translated by P.E. Matheson, revised by Ellis Shookman   WILHELM HEINSE From Ardinghello Glossary Translated by Ellis Shookman   ULRICH BRAKER From The Life Story and Real Adventures of the Poor Man of Toggenburg Glossary Translated by Derek Bowman   Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Ellis Shookman
• Assisted by: Ellis Shookman (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1997
• EAN: 9780826407092
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-0709-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: German library
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews