Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Risk Taking: On Reading and Enlightenment -- 2. Attitude and Form -- 3. Essay or Essayism? -- 4. The World of Eighteenth-Century Thought -- 5. The Ethics of Writing and Reading -- 6. The Poetry of Prose -- 7. The Dialectic Muse Awakes: Essayistic Writing 1680-1750 -- 8. The Dialectic Muse Soars I: Essayistic Prose 1750-1790 -- 9. The Dialectic Muse Soars II: Essayistic Writing 1770-1815 -- 10. Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Crossing Boundaries focuses on the intellectual and social factors that led to the emergence and first flowering of the German essay
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In English
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