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A History of German Literature by Ernst Rose is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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353 pages ; 25 cm " ... partly based on the author's ... Geschichte der deutschen Literatur auf kulturgeschichtlicher Grundlage (New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1936)."--Page [vii] Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-339) and index The Germanic Inheritance -- The Coming of Christianity -- German Poetry in the Latin Language -- German Poetry Written by Clerics -- The World of the Knight -- Minnesong -- Knightly Romances -- The Renewal of Germanic Traditions -- The Waning Middle Ages -- Ideal and Reality -- The Religious Plays -- The Development of German Prose -- Humanism -- Middle-class Literature -- The Reformation -- The Revival of Poetic Literature -- Between Humanism and Christianity -- The Literature of the Intellectuals -- The Popular Writers of the Seventeenth Century -- The Spirit of the Eighteenth Century -- The Literature of Wit -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Johann Christoph Martin Wieland -- The Age of Revolution -- Hamann and Herder -- Storm and Stress -- German Classicism -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe -- Friedrich Schiller -- Friedrich Holderlin -- Jean Paul -- The Founders of German Romanticism -- Heinrich von Kleist -- The Harvest Time of German Romanticism --

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Author
Ernst Rose
Publisher
[New York]: New York University Press
Published
1960
Language
EN
ISBN
9780814703632
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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