Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: German Literature in the Era of Enlightenment and Sensibility 1
6. Enlightenment Thought and Natural Law from Leibniz to Kant and its Influence on German Literature 33
7. Gottsched’s Literary Reforms: The Beginning of Modern German Literature 55
8. The Literary Marketplace and the Journal, Medium of the Enlightenment 79
9. Religious and Secular Poetry and Epic (1700–1780) 105
10. Literary Developments in Switzerland from Bodmer, Breitinger, and Haller to Gessner, Rousseau, and Pestalozzi 131
11. Lessing, Bourgeois Drama, and the National Theater 155
12. Musical Culture and Thought 185
13. The Era of Sensibility and the Novel of Self-Fashioning 223
14. Enlightenment in Austria: Cultural Identity and a National Literature 245
15. Eighteenth-Century Germany in its Historical Context 265
16. The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Critique from Hamann and Herder to the Frankfurt School 285
17. Bibliography 309
18. Contributors 329
19. Index 331