Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Chronological List of Grimmelshausen’s Works and Their First English Translation xi
6. Introduction 1
7. I. Basics
8. Problems in the Editions of Grimmelshausen’s Works 23
9. Grimmelshausen’s “Autobiographies” and the Art of the Novel 45
10. Allegorical and Astrological Forms in the Works of Grimmelshausen with Special Emphasis on the Prophecy Motif 93
11. Grimmelshausen and the Picaresque Novel 147
12. Grimmelshausen’s Ewig-währender Calender: A Labyrinth of Knowledge and Reading 167
13. Grimmelshausen’s Non-Simplician Novels 201
14. In Grimmelshausen’s Tracks: The Literary and Cultural Legacy 231
15. II. Critical Approaches
16. Engendering Social Order: From Costume Autobiography to Conversation Games in Grimmelshausen’s Simpliciana 267
17. The Poetics of Masquerade: Clothing and the Construction of Social, Religious, and Gender Identity in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus 299
18. “To see from these black lines”: The Mise en Livre of the Phoenix Copperplate and Other Grimmelshausen Illustrations 333
19. The Search for Freedom: Grimmelshausen’s Simplician Weltanschauung 359
20. Notes on the Contributors 379
21. Index 383