German Literature of the Eighteenth Century – The Enlightenment and Sensibility CHHGL 5: Camden House History of German Literature

Barbara Becker-Cantarino

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