Edinburgh German Yearbook 12 – Repopulating the Eighteenth Century: Second–Tier Writing in the German Enlightenment: Edinburgh German Yearbook

Michael Wood, Johannes Birgfeld

Introduction: Literary Historiography, the Canon, and the Rest - Johannes Birgfeld and Michael Wood PART 1. POETRY Curing both Body and Soul. The Physician as Poet in the Works of Daniel Wilhelm Triller - Kristin Eichhorn Daniel Stoppe's Fables: A "Second-Tier" Version of the Genre in the Early Enlightenment? - Stephanie Blum "Nicht unsrer Lesewelt, und nicht der Ewigkeit": Late Style in Gleim's Zeit- and Sinngedichte (1792-1803) - Ellen Pilsworth PART 2. THE NOVEL Difficulties of a Statesman: Johann Michael von Loen and Der redliche Mann am Hofe - Ritchie Robertson Expanding the Eighteenth-Century Novel between England and Germany: Sentiment, Experience, and the Self - Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge An Unoriginal Modernity: The Novelist-Translator Friedrich von Oertel - Leonard von Morze PART 3. DRAMA AND THEATER Theater for an Urban Audience: Adam Gottfried Uhlichs Der Jungfernstieg and Der Götterkrieg - Johannes Birgfeld Stepping Out of Götz's Shadow: Jacob Maier, the Ritterstück, and the Historical Drama - Michael Wood "You can go to hell with your Chinese bridge": August von Kotzebue's Most Successful Play Menschenhaß und Reue and the European Garden Revolution - Julia Bohnengel PART 4. PHILOSOPHY AND CRITICISM A Troll Emerges: The Beginning of August Friedrich Cranz's Career as a Provocateur - Jonathan Blake Fine Second-Tier Writing in Catholic Germany: Eulogius Schneider (1756-1794) as Professor of Aesthetics and Poet - J. C. Lees Performativity and "Poetic" Epistemology: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten's Response to Moses Mendelssohn's Aesthetics - Joanna Raisbeck