Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz: Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems

by Martin Wagner, Ellwood Wiggins, J.M.R. Lenz

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792) is, after Goethe, the most important writer of the German Sturm und Drang. Crucial in the reinvention of German literature through the reception of Shakespeare, his works contain a scathing critique of the ethical, political, and sexual regimes then prevailing in German and Eastern European territories. Both aesthetically and politically, Lenz strongly influenced later German writers - most notably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139931
• ISBN13: 9781571139931
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"