Early Modern German Literature 1350-1700 (Camden House History of German Literature, 4)

Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northern humanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recent scholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptions about the literature of this period, starting with a reassessment of the canon. The notion of "literature" has expanded to include a much wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets, illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonological treatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural and social phenomena that affect literary production has led to hitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture of learning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationship between the intellectual elite and the state and other political authorities and institutions; the development of the family; gender dichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middle class. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific but broadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, written by leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, and Germany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-art research. CONTRIBUTORS: KLAUS GARBER, GRAEME DUNPHY, RENATE BORN, STEPHAN FÜSSEL, SCOTT DIXON, WILHELM KÜHLMANN, MAX REINHART, JOACHIM KNAPE, HANS-GERT ROLOFF, ERIKA RUMMEL, JOHN ALEXANDER, PETER HESS, ANDREAS SOLBACH, PETER DALY, HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY, JILL BEPLER, GERHART HOFFMEISTER, STEVEN SAUNDERS, JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH, WOLFGANG NEUBER, GERHILD SCHOLZ WILLIAMS, ANNA CARRDUS, JOHN L. FLOOD, LAUREL CARRINGTON, THEODOR VERWEYEN, JOHN ROGER PAAS Max Reinhart is professor of German at the University of Georgia. Pathbreaking volume providing a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of the literature of this 350-year period and its cultural and historical background.Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northernhumanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recent scholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptions about the literature of this period, starting with areassessment of the canon. The notion of'literature'has expanded to include a much wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets, illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonological treatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural and social phenomena that affect literary production has led to hitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture of learning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationship betweenthe intellectual elite and the state and other political authorities and institutions; the development of the family; gender dichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middle class. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific but broadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, written by leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, and Germany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-art research. Contributors: Klaus Garber, Graeme Dunphy, Renate Born, Stephan Füssel, Scott Dixon, Wilhelm Külmann, Max Reinhart, joachim Knape, Hans-Gert Roloff, Erika Rummel, John Alexander, Peter Hess, Andreas Solbach, Peter Daly, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Jill Bepler, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Steven Saunders, jeffrey Chipps Smith, Wolfgang Neuber, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Anna Carrdus, John L. Flood, Laurel Carrington, Theodor Verweyen, John Roger Paas Max Reinhart is Professor of German at the University of Georgia. Pathbreaking volume providing a detailed, state-of-the-artoverview of the literature of this 350-year period and its culturaland historical background. Early Modern GermanLiterature provides an overview of major literary figures andworks, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, andcultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering ofnorthernhumanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctlymiddle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recentscholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptionsabout the literature of this period, starting with areassessment ofthe canon. The notion of "literature" has expanded to include amuch wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets,illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonologicaltreatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural andsocial phenomena that affect literary production has led tohitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture oflearning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationshipbetweenthe intellectual elite and the state and other politicalauthorities and institutions; the development of the family; genderdichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middleclass. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific butbroadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, writtenby leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, andGermany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-artresearch. Contributors: Klaus Garber, Graeme Dunphy, Renate Born,Stephan Füssel, Scott Dixon, Wilhelm Külmann, Max Reinhart, joachimKnape, Hans-Gert Roloff, Erika Rummel, John Alexander, Peter Hess,Andreas Solbach, Peter Daly, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Jill Bepler,Gerhart Hoffmeister, Steven Saunders, jeffrey Chipps Smith,Wolfgang Neuber, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Anna Carrdus, John L.Flood, Laurel Carrington, Theodor Verweyen, John Roger Paas MaxReinhart is Professor of German at the University of Georgia Pathbreaking volume providing a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of the literature of this 350-year period and its cultural and historical background. Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northernhumanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recent scholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptions about the literature of this period, starting with areassessment of the canon. The notion of "literature" has expanded to include a much wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets, illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonological treatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural and social phenomena that affect literary production has led to hitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture of learning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationship betweenthe intellectual elite and the state and other political authorities and institutions; the development of the family; gender dichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middle class. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific but broadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, written by leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, and Germany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-art research. Klaus Garber, Graeme Dunphy, Renate Born, Stephan Fssel, Scott Dixon, Wilhelm Klmann, Max Reinhart, joachim Knape, Hans-Gert Roloff, Erika Rummel, John Alexander, Peter Hess, Andreas Solbach, Peter Daly, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Jill Bepler, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Steven Saunders, jeffrey Chipps Smith, Wolfgang Neuber, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Anna Carrdus, John L. Flood, Laurel Carrington, Theodor Verweyen, John Roger Paas Max Reinhart is Professor of German at the University of Georgia. Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northernhumanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recent scholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptions about the literature of this period, starting with areassessment of the canon. The notion of "literature" has expanded to include a much wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets, illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonological treatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural and social phenomena that affect literary production has led to hitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture of learning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationship betweenthe intellectual elite and the state and other political authorities and institutions; the development of the family; gender dichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middle class. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific but broadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, written by leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, and Germany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-art research.

Contributors: Klaus Garber, Graeme Dunphy, Renate Born, Stephan Füssel, Scott Dixon, Wilhelm Külmann, Max Reinhart, joachim Knape, Hans-Gert Roloff, Erika Rummel, John Alexander, Peter Hess, Andreas Solbach, Peter Daly, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Jill Bepler, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Steven Saunders, jeffrey Chipps Smith, Wolfgang Neuber, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Anna Carrdus, John L. Flood, Laurel Carrington, Theodor Verweyen, John Roger Paas

Max Reinhart is Professor of German at the University of Georgia. ISBN-13: 9781571132475 1571132473 1 CONTENTS 6 PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 Introduction: German Literature in the Early Modern Period 14 Part I: Transitions 56 Frühe Neuzeit — Early Modernity: Reflections on a New Category of Literary History 58 German Literature of the Middle Period: Working with the Sources 86 Literary Transitions, 1300–1500: From Late Medieval to Early Modern 98 The Evolution of Modern Standard German 144 Part II: Formations 190 Education in Early Modern Germany 192 The Reformation Movement in Germany 244 Early Modern German Printing 272 Poetics and Rhetorics in Early Modern Germany 302 Neo-Latin Literature in Early Modern Germany 336 Ad fontes: German Humanists as Editors and Translators 386 Part III: Forms 410 Early Modern German Drama, 1400–1700 412 Poetry in Germany, 1450–1700 450 Early Modern German Narrative Prose 522 The Emblem and Emblematic Forms in Early Modern Germany 564 Part IV: Representations 602 The Pictorial Language of German Art, 1400–1650 604 Eros in Early Modern German Literature 648 Literature and the Court, 1450–1720 676 Music in Early Modern Germany 708 Early Modern German Libraries and Collections 754 Travel Reports in Early Modern Germany 792 Demonologies: Writing about Magic and Witchcraft 816 Part V: Lives 832 Parallel Lives: Heinrich Steinhöwel, Albrecht von Eyb, and Niklas von Wyle 834 Parallel Lives: Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Bucer 852 Parallel Lives: Martin Opitz and Julius Wilhelm Zincgref 878 Parallel Lives: Sigmund von Birken and Duke Anton Ulrich 910 Women’s Writing in the Context of Their Lives, 1520–1720 924 BIBLIOGRAPHY 960 Primary Literature 960 Select Secondary Literature 982 NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS 1052 INDEX 1058 Camden,House Camden House