Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. Conventions, Editions, and Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. What is Classicism? 45
8. Antiquity and Weimar Classicism 63
9. The Correspondents’ Noncorrespondence: Goethe, Schiller, and the Briefwechsel 91
10. Johann Gottfried Herder: The Weimar Classic Back of the (City)Church 113
11. Drama and Theatrical Practice in Weimar Classicism 133
12. German Classical Poetry 169
13. The Novel in Weimar Classicism: Symbolic Form and Symbolic Pregnance 211
14. German Women Writers and Classicism 237
15. Weimar Classicism as Visual Culture 265
16. The Irrelevance of Aesthetics and the De-Theorizing of the Self in “Classical” Weimar 295
17. Goethe’s “Classical” Science 323
18. The Political Context of Weimar Classicism 347
19. Bibliography 369
20. Contributors 399
21. Index 401