The English Book In Eighteenth Century Germany

Author : Bernhard Fabian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Book in Eighteenth-century Germany written by Bernhard Fabian and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible study of the impact of English literature and culture on the emergent national culture of 18th century Germany. The text traces the bibliographic evidence for the spread of English influence, through the publication and distribution of translations and its effect on a country striving to modernize, to refine its language and to transform its literature.

Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health & Healing in Eighteenth-century Germany written by Mary Lindemann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindemann also examines the process of becoming a patient and explores the effects of the social, economic, political, and cultural milieux on how medicine was practiced in the everyday world of the village, the neighborhood, and the town.

Author : Barbara Duden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674954045
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Beneath the Skin written by Barbara Duden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies--male and female, healthy or sick--are cultural constructions. To illustrate this, she delves into records of an 18th-century German physician who documented the medical histories of 1,800 women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.

Author : W. H. Bruford
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521092593
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany in the Eighteenth Century: The Social Background of the Literary Revival written by W. H. Bruford and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1935-01-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1935 book plunges the reader into life in Germany two hundred years ago, linking everyday life with the thought of the age.

Author : Matthew Head
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954769
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sovereign Feminine written by Matthew Head and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity—a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal—linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.

Author : H. C. Erik Midelfort
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130139
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exorcism and Enlightenment written by H. C. Erik Midelfort and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727-1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, he healed thousands, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic. In this book H.C. Erik Midelfort delves deeply into records of the time to explore Gassner's remarkable exorcising campaign, chronicle the official efforts to curb him, and reconstruct the sufferings of the afflicted. Gassner's activities triggered a Catholic religious revival as well as a noisy skeptical reaction. In response to those who doubted that he was really casting out demons, Gassner marshaled hundreds of eyewitness reports that seemed to prove his exorcisms really worked. Midelfort describes the enormous public controversy that resulted, and he demonstrates that the Gassner episode yields important insights into the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, the limitations of eighteenth-century debate, and the ongoing role of magic and belief in an age of scientific enlightenment.

Author : Johann Gottfried Seume
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stroll to Syracuse written by Johann Gottfried Seume and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1964 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matt Erlin
Publisher : University of North Carolina S
ISBN 13 : 9781469614632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin's Forgotten Future written by Matt Erlin and published by University of North Carolina S. This book was released on 2014-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in precisely the kind of nuanced thinking about history that has come to be seen as characteristic of the German Enlightenment. The author's demonstration of Berlin's historical-theoretical significance also provides perspective on the larger question of the city's impact on eighteenth-century German culture. Challenging the widespread idea that German intellectuals were anti-urban, the study reveals the extent to which urban sociability came to be seen by some as a problematic but crucial factor in the realization of their Enlightenment aims.

Author : Jan Stievermann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271063009
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Peculiar Mixture written by Jan Stievermann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: