Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: German literature in the era of enlightenment and sensibility / Barbara Becker-Cantarino
  • Enlightenment thought and natural law from Leibniz to Kant and its influence on German literature / Kai Hammermeister
  • Gottsched's literary reforms: the beginning of modern German literature / Katherine Goodman
  • The literary marketplace and the journal, medium of the Enlightenment / Helga Brandes
  • Religious and secular poetry and epic (1700-1780) / Kevin Hilliard
  • Literary developments in Switzerland from Bodmer, Breitinger, and Haller to Gessner, Rousseau, and Pestalozzi / Rosmarie Zeller
  • Lessing, bourgeois drama, and the national theater / Francis Lamport
  • Musical culture and thought / Sarah Colvin
  • The era of sensibility and the novel of self-fashioning / Anna Richards
  • Enlightenment in Austria: cultural identity and a national literature / Franz M. Eybl
  • Eighteenth-century Germany in its historical context / W. Daniel Wilson
  • The legacy of the Enlightenment: critique from Hamann and Herder to the Frankfurt school / Robert Holub.