Impatient Muse: Germany and the Sturm Und Drang

by Alan C. Leidner

Far from being a forerunner of Weimar Classicism or an addendum to the Enlightenment, the Sturm und Drang is best seen as part of an autonomous culture of impatience -- as literature in which Germans, frustrated with their fragmented land, simulated a sense of power and effectiveness that political realities did not afford. This impatience drove not only authors and the characters they created; it also drew in German audiences and readers ready to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807881155
• ISBN13: 9780807881156
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"