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1 online resource (xxvii, 272 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Gallagher -- Weimar classicism : Goethe's alliance with Schiller / T.J. Reed -- Navigating gender : Georg Forster in the Pacific and Emilie von Berlepsch in Scotland / Ruth P. Dawson -- Blank verse theatre texts and Weimar classicism / Friederike von Schwerin-High -- Personal classicism : Greek and Roman antiquity in Wieland's correspondence / Ellis Shookman -- Complex classicism and Roman romanticism : reflections on ancient Roman literature around 1800 / Angela Holzer -- Weimar classicism and modern spiritual drama : Rudolf Steiner's theatre of spiritual realism / Christian Clement -- Shakespeare's Hamlet and Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre / David Gallagher -- On the periphery of Weimar classicism : passion, patriarchy and political machinations in Caroline von Wolzogen's Agnes von Lilien (1797) and Barbara Honigmann's Eine Liebe aus Nichts (1991) / Dennis Mahoney. |
| Summary |
WEIMAR CLASSICISM: This descriptive term, designating a unique and verybrief epoch of literary and cultural achievement in Germany, is familiar to everystudent of German literature and culture. It was not always so. Only toward theend of the nineteenth century was the term introduced retrospectively in referenceto the few years at the end of the preceding century, which marked the high pointof the career of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who resided in the otherwise smalland provincial Duchy of Weimar and whose achievement as man of lettersestablished what ultimately came to be called 'Classicism. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Classicism -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) -- History -- 18th century.
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Classicism. |
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Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) |
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History. |
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Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) -- Intellectual life.
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Gallagher, David.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weimar classicism. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773414808 (DLC) 2010054071 (OCoLC)696773047 |
| ISBN |
9780773420571 (electronic book) |
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0773420576 (electronic book) |
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9780773414808 |
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0773414800 |
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