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Author McCarthy, John A

Title Crossing Boundaries : Towards a Theory and History of Essay Writing in German, 1680-1815 / John A. McCarthy
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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Contents 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
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject German essays -- History and criticism
Essay.
German prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
German prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
German prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Enlightenment -- Germany
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comparative Literature.
Enlightenment
Essay
German essays
German prose literature
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054608
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512805468
1512805467