Crossing Boundaries : : Towards a Theory and History of Essay Writing in German, 1680-1815 / / John A. McCarthy.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Table of 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