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New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.The Enlightenment was based on the use of reason, common sense, and'natural law,'and was paralleled by an emphasis on feelings and the emotions in religious, especially Pietist circles. Progressive thinkers in England, France, and later in Germany began to assail the absolutism of the state and the orthodoxy of the Church; in Germany the line led from Leibniz, Thomasius, and Wolff to Lessing and Kant, and eventually to the rise of an educated upper middle class. Literary developments encompassed the emergence of a national theater, literature, and a common literary language. This became possible in part because of advances in literacy and education, especially among bourgeois women, and the reorganization of book production and the book market. This major new reference work provides a fresh look at the major literary figures, works, and cultural developments from around 1700 up to the late Enlightenment.They trace the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking countries: from occasional and learned literature under the influence of French Neoclassici

Author

Barbara Becker-Cantarino; Anna Richards; F.J. Lamport; Franz M. Eybl; Helga Brandes; Kai Hammermeister; Katherine R. Goodman; Kevin F. Hilliard; Robert C. Holub; Rosmarie Zeller; Sarah Colvin; W. Daniel Wilson

Publisher

Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571131034

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction