Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Pastoral as a Way of Not Looking at the Country
- 1 Pastoral in the Enlightenment: Salomon Gessner’s Idylls
- 2 “Wo Giebts Dann Schäfer Wie Diese?”: Friedrich “Maler” Müller’s Idylls of Cultural Renewal
- 3 Johann Heinrich Voss’s Experiments with an Enlightened Idyll
- 4 Goethe and Schiller’s Engagements with Pastoral: Facing the Postrevolutionary World
- 5 Heinrich von Kleist: The Promises and Illusions of Pastoral
- 6 Pastoral in the Age of Capital: Eduard Mörike and Johann Nestroy
- Conclusion: From Middle-Class Critique to Critiquing the Middle Classes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
A Note on Translations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Pastoral as a Way of Not Looking at the Country
- 1 Pastoral in the Enlightenment: Salomon Gessner’s Idylls
- 2 “Wo Giebts Dann Schäfer Wie Diese?”: Friedrich “Maler” Müller’s Idylls of Cultural Renewal
- 3 Johann Heinrich Voss’s Experiments with an Enlightened Idyll
- 4 Goethe and Schiller’s Engagements with Pastoral: Facing the Postrevolutionary World
- 5 Heinrich von Kleist: The Promises and Illusions of Pastoral
- 6 Pastoral in the Age of Capital: Eduard Mörike and Johann Nestroy
- Conclusion: From Middle-Class Critique to Critiquing the Middle Classes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle ClassTransformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750–1850, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020