1st Edition
Imperiled Heritage: Tradition, History and Utopia in Early Modern German Literature Selected Essays by Klaus Garber
Edited By Max Reinhart
Copyright 2000
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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The most prolific historian of early modern German literature in the twentieth century, Klaus Garber has largely remained unknown to English-language scholars. The seven essays selected here are translated into English for the first time and represent the ’essence’ of Garber’s work. Central to Garber’s outlook is a break with the traditional canonization of culture into national categories.... Read more
Contents: Editor's Introduction; Prophecy, love and law: visions of peace from Isaiah to Kant (and beyond); ’Your arts shall be: to impose the ways of peace’ - tolerance, liberty, and the nation in the literature and deeds of Humanism; The republic of letters and the absolutist state: nine theses; Paris, capital of European late Humanism: Jacques Auguste de Thou and the Cabinet Dupuy; Utopia and the green world: critique and anticipation in pastoral poetry; Nuremberg, Arcadia on the Pegnitz: the self-stylization of an urban sodality; Begin with Goethe? Forgotten traditions at the threshold of the modern age; Bibliographical note on the essays; About the translators; Index.
Biography
Max Reinhart
'Reinhart's book is a skillfully edited work with provocative and wide-ranging meditations on early modern literature. It will inspire scholarship across disciplines and contribute substantially to the study of the early modern period.' German Studies Review
