Early Modern German Literature

by Reinhart, Max

• ISBN13: 9781571132475
• ISBN10: 1571132473
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-29
• Publisher: Camden House

Summary

Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northern humanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recent scholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptions about the literature of this period, starting with a reassessment of the canon. The notion of "literature" has expanded to include a much wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets, illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonological treatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural and social phenomena that affect literary production has led to hitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture of learning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationship between the intellectual elite and the state and other political authorities and institutions; the development of the family; gender dichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middle class. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific but broadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, written by leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, and Germany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-art research. CONTRIBUTORS: KLAUS GARBER, GRAEME DUNPHY, RENATE BORN, STEPHAN FüSSEL, SCOTT DIXON, WILHELM KüHLMANN, MAX REINHART, JOACHIM KNAPE, HANS-GERT ROLOFF, ERIKA RUMMEL, JOHN ALEXANDER, PETER HESS, ANDREAS SOLBACH, PETER DALY, HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY, JILL BEPLER, GERHART HOFFMEISTER, STEVEN SAUNDERS, JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH, WOLFGANG NEUBER, GERHILD SCHOLZ WILLIAMS, ANNA CARRDUS, JOHN L. FLOOD, LAUREL CARRINGTON, THEODOR VERWEYEN, JOHN ROGER PAAS Max Reinhart is professor of German at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: German Literature in the Early Modern Period	p. xiii
Transitions
Fruhe Neuzeit-Early Modernity: Reflections on a New Category of Literary History	p. 3
German Literature of the Middle Period: Working with the Sources	p. 31
Literary Transitions, 1300-1500: From Late Medieval to Early Modern	p. 43
The Evolution of Modern Standard German	p. 89
Formations
Education in Early Modern Germany	p. 137
The Reformation Movement in Germany	p. 189
Early Modern German Printing	p. 217
Poetics and Rhetorics in Early Modern Germany	p. 247
Neo-Latin Literature in Early Modern Germany	p. 281
Ad fontes: German Humanists as Editors and Translators	p. 331
Forms
Early Modern German Drama, 1400-1700	p. 357
Poetry in Germany, 1450-1700	p. 395
Early Modern German Narrative Prose	p. 467
The Emblem and Emblematic Forms in Early Modern Germany	p. 509
Representations
The Pictorial Language of German Art, 1400-1650	p. 549
Eros in Early Modern German Literature	p. 593
Literature and the Court, 1450-1720	p. 621
Music in Early Modern Germany	p. 653
Early Modern German Libraries and Collections	p. 699
Travel Reports in Early Modern Germany	p. 737
Demonologies: Writing about Magic and Witchcraft	p. 761
Lives
Parallel Lives: Heinrich Steinhowel, Albrecht von Eyb, and Niklas von Wyle	p. 779
Parallel Lives: Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Bucer	p. 797
Parallel Lives: Martin Opitz and Julius Wilhelm Zincgref	p. 823
Parallel Lives: Sigmund von Birken and Duke Anton Ulrich	p. 855
Women's Writing in the Context of Their Lives, 1520-1720	p. 869
Bibliography
Primary Literature	p. 905
Select Secondary Literature	p. 927
Notes on the Contributors	p. 997
Index	p. 1003
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.