The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel

by David Simpson

Book Overview

Originally published in 1988, this book provides a comprehensive anthology in English of the major texts of German literary and aesthetic theory between Lessing and Hegel. It represents a one-volume compendium of the three-volume set of German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism published by Cambridge University Press in 1984 and 1985. The texts contained in this volume are crucial to an understanding not only of the Romantic period itself, but also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521359023
• ISBN13: 9780521359023
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"