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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Note on Translations ix
5. List of Abbreviations x
6. Introduction: Pastoral as a Way of Not Looking at the Country 1
7. 1: Pastoral in the Enlightenment: Salomon Gessner’s Idylls 39
8. 2: “Wo giebts dann Schäfer wie diese?”: Friedrich “Maler” Müller’s Idylls of Cultural Renewal 64
9. 3: Johann Heinrich Voss’s Experiments with an Enlightened Idyll 85
10. 4: Goethe and Schiller’s Engagements with Pastoral: Facing the Postrevolutionary World 111
11. 5: Heinrich von Kleist: The Promises and Illusions of Pastoral 151
12. 6: Pastoral in the Age of Capital: Eduard Mörike and Johann Nestroy 193
13. Conclusion: From Middle-Class Critique to Critiquing the Middle Classes 217
14. Notes 223
15. Bibliography 261
16. Index 279