Note on the Text

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on the Text ix
5. Introduction: Literary Historiography, the Canon, and the Rest 1
6. Part I. Poetry
7. Curing Both Body and Soul: The Physician as Poet in the Works of Daniel Wilhelm Triller 19
8. Daniel Stoppe’s Fables: A “Second-Tier” Version of the Genre in the Early Enlightenment? 35
9. “Nicht unsrer Lesewelt, und nicht der Ewigkeit”: Late Style in Gleim’s Zeitand Sinngedichte (1792–1803) 52
10. Part II. The Novel
11. Difficulties of a Statesman: Johann Michael von Loen and Der redliche Mann am Hofe 71
12. Expanding the Eighteenth-Century Novel between England and Germany: Sentiment, Experience, and the Self 90
13. An Unoriginal Modernity: The Novelist- Translator Friedrich von Oertel 107
14. Part III. Drama and Theater
15. Theater for an Urban Audience: Adam Gottfried Uhlich’s Der Jungfernstieg and Der Götterkrieg 127
16. Stepping Out of Götz’s Shadow: Jacob Maier, the Ritterstück, and the Historical Drama 145
17. “You can go to hell with your Chinese bridge”: August von Kotzebue’s Most Successful Play Menschenhaß und Reue and the European Garden Revolution 162
18. Part IV. Philosophy and Criticism
19. A Troll Emerges: The Beginning of August Friedrich Cranz’s Career as a Provocateur 181
20. Second-Tier Writing in Catholic Germany: Eulogius Schneider (1756–1794) as Professor of Aesthetics and Poet 199
21. Performativity and “Poetic” Epistemology: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten’s Response to Moses Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics 213
22. Contributors 231