2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock’s Messias

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature 1
5. 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics 19
6. 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock’s Messias 46
7. Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou 80
8. 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea. 86
9. 4. Wieland’s Parodic Humanism 117
10. Epilogue: Brentano’s Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic 152
11. Bibliography 197
12. Index of Subjects 209
13. Index of Names 214