The literature of Weimar classicism
By: edited by Simon J. Richter.
Contributors: Richter, Simon.
Series: The Camden House history of German literature ;; v. 7
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Classicism -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is classicism? / Dieter Borchmeyer; title: Antiquity and Weimar classicism / Charles A. Grair; title: The correspondence of Goethe and Schiller / Gail Hart; title: Johann Gottfried Herder: the Weimar classic behind the (city) church / Thomas P. Saine; title: Classical drama and theatrical practice in Weimar / Jane K. Brown; title: German classical poetry / Cyrus Hamlin; title: The novel in Weimar classicism: symbolic form and symbolic pregnance / R.H. Stephenson; title: German women writers and classicism / Elisabeth Krimmer; title: Weimar classicism as visual culture / Helmut Pfotenhauer; title: Goethe's "classical" science / Astrida Orle Tantillo; title: The irrelevance of aesthetics and the de-theorizing of the self in "classical" Weimar / Benjamin Bennett; title: Weimar classicism and the French Revolution / W. Daniel Wilson.