Calhoon Affecting Grace

Literature from Lessing to Kleist
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6415-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: German and European Studies

Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calhoon, Kenneth C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter One: Mercy and the Spirit of Commerce: Shylock’s Shadow in the Age of DisinterestChapter Two: Judging Adam: Theater and the Fall into HistoryChapter Three: The Virtue of Things: Meissen Porcelain and the Classical ObjectChapter Four: Of Praise and Poison in Hamlet and Miss Sara SampsonChapter Five: Scenic Fantasies: Bellotto in Dresden—Goethe in StrasbourgChapter Six: Sovereign Innocence: Schiller’s “Walk” and the Naïve SpectatorChapter Seven: Caught in the Act: The Comedic Miscarriage of Kleist’s Broken JugEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

CalhoonKenneth C.:

Kenneth S. Calhoon is professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.