German Literature of the Eighteenth Century (EPDF) von Barbara Becker-Cantarino

New essays tracing the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking lands and the cultural developments that accompanied it.

Introduction: The Rise of German Literature in the Era of Enlightenment and Sensibility: Recent Research and Revaluations - Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Enlightened Thought and Natural Law from Leibnitz to Kant and its Influence on Literature - Kai Hammermeister
Neoclassicism, the Gottscheds, and New Beginnings in German Literature - Katherine R. Goodman
The Literary Marketplace, New Media, and New Genres - Helga Brandes
Literary Developments in Switzerland from Bodmer, Breitinger, and Haller to Gessner, Rousseau, and Pestalozzi - Rosmarie Zeller
Religious and Secular Poetry and Epic, 1700-1780 - Kevin F. Hilliard
Lessing, Bourgeois Drama, and the National Theater - F. J. Lamport
Musical Culture and Thought in Eighteenth-Century Germany - Sarah Colvin
The Era of Sensibility and the Novel of Self-Fashioning - Anna Richards
Enlightenment in Austria: Cultural Identity and National Literature - Franz M. Eybl
Eighteenth-Century Germany in its Historical Context - W. Daniel Wilson
The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Critique from Herder and Hamann to Horkheimer/Adorno and Habermas - Robert C. Holub