Title Weimar classicism : studies in Goethe, Schiller, Forster, Berlepsch, Wieland, Herder, and Steiner / edited by David Gallagher ; with forewords by Cyrus Hamlin and Ellis Dye.

Publication Info.	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2010]
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Description	1 online resource (xxvii, 272 pages)
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.
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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.
Subject	German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	Classicism -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) -- History -- 18th century.
	Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) -- Intellectual life.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
	Classicism. (OCoLC)fst00863557
	German literature. (OCoLC)fst00941797
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) (OCoLC)fst01312988
Chronological Term	1700 - 1799
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Gallagher, David.
Other Form:	Print version: Weimar classicism. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773414808 (DLC) 2010054071 (OCoLC)696773047
ISBN	9780773420571 (electronic bk.)
	0773420576 (electronic bk.)

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