Elystan Griffiths

The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class

Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Inc
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781640140646
• ISBN-10: 1640140646
• Artikelnr.: 58293129

Autorenporträt

ELYSTAN GRIFFITHS is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in German Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of the monographs Political Change and Human Emancipation in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist (2005) and The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class: Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850 (2020). Along with David Hill, he published the first complete edition of J.M.R. Lenz's writings on social and military reform, based on extensive manuscript holdings in Kraków, Berlin and Riga. He is currently working on a project on the relationship between obedience and agency in German culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Post-Revolutionary World Heinrich von
Kleist: The Promises and Illusions of Pastoral Pastoral in the Age of
Capital: Eduard Mörike and Johann Nestroy Conclusion