Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER ONE Middle Class/Bourgeois/Bürger: The Idiosyncrasies of German Dramatic Realism 28
7. CHAPTER TWO Tableau/Tableau Vivant: German-French Dramatic Encounters 43
8. CHAPTER THREE The German Dramatic Tableau beyond Lessing 64
9. CHAPTER FOUR Against Interiority: Letters and Portraits as Dramatic Props 87
10. CHAPTER FIVE Material Kinship: The Economy of Props in G. E. Lessing’s Nathan der Weise 117
11. CHAPTER SIX The Tableau of Relations: Novels in Stillness and Motion 144
12. CHAPTER SEVEN Kinship and Aesthetic Depth: The Tableau Vivant in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften [Elective Affinities] 197
13. Concluding Reflections 231
14. Acknowledgments 235
15. Notes 239
16. Bibliography 299
17. Index 325
18. About the author 337