Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany

Early modern Germany saw the dissemination of vast quantities of information at unprecedented speed. Popular knowledge, scientific inquiry, and scholarship influenced the political order, poetic expression, public opinion, and mechanisms of social control. This collection presents twelve essays by distinguished scholars regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine, the natural world, the body, sexuality, intellectual property, aesthetics, demons, and witches.

The contributors are Thomas Cramer, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Jan-Dirk Måller, James A. Parente, Jr., Stephan K. Schindler, Gerhard F. Strasser, Lynne Tatlock, Elaine Tennant, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

About the author

Gerhild Scholz Williams is professor of German and comparative literature at Washington University. Stephan K. Schindler is assistant professor of German at Washington University.

Summary

Presents twelve essays by distinguished scholars on newly emerging epistemologies regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine, the natural world, the body, sexuality, intellectual property, aesthetics, demons, and witches.

Product details

• Authors: Gerhild Scholz Schindler Williams, WILLIAMS SCHINDLER
• Assisted by: Stephan K Schindler (Editor), Stephan K. Schindler (Editor), Gerhild Scholz Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781469656465
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-5646-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: University of North Carolina S; University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature; University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Deutsch, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Pop Arts / Pop Culture