Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Pastoral as a Way of Not Looking at the Country -- Pastoral in the Enlightenment: Salomon Gessner's Idylls -- "Wo giebts dann Schafer wie diese?": Friedrich "Maler" Muller'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 Morike and Johann Nestroy -- Conclusion: From Middle-Class Critique to Critiquing the Middle Classes.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Studies in German literature linguistics and culture
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