UID:
almafu_9960118409902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-676-X
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature linguistics and culture
Content:
Analyzes the transformation of German-language pastoral from a portrayal of the idyllic lives of herdsmen into a vehicle for the concerns and aspirations of the middle class.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020).
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Introduction: Pastoral as a Way of Not Looking at the Country -- Pastoral in the Enlightenment: Salomon Gessner's Idylls -- "Wo giebts dann Schäfer wie diese?": Friedrich "Maler" Müller's Idylls of Cultural Renewal --Johann Heinrich Voss's Experiments with an Enlightened Idyll -- Goethe and Schiller's Engagements with Pastoral: Facing the Postrevolutionary World -- Heinrich von Kleist: The Promises and Illusions of Pastoral -- Pastoral in the Age of Capital: Eduard Mörike and Johann Nestroy -- Conclusion: From Middle-Class Critique to Critiquing the Middle Classes.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-64014-064-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781787446762
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787446762/type/BOOK
