Literature of the Sturm Und Drang

"Sturm und Drang" refers to a set of values and a style of writing that arose in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, a particularly intense kind of pre-Romanticism that has often been represented as marking the beginning of an independent modern German culture. The circle of writers around the young Goethe, including Herder, Lenz, Klinger, and later Schiller, felt frustrated by the Enlightenment world of reason, balance, and control,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131744
• ISBN13: 9781571131744
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"