Published May 2017
Enlightenment and Religion in German and Austrian Literature
Ritchie Robertson
including:
Introduction | ||
Aspects of Religious Toleration in Eighteenth-Century Germany | ||
Virtue versus ‘Schwärmerei’ in Lessing’s Emilia Galotti | ||
Literary Techniques and Complex Words in Goethe’s Faust | ||
Wallenstein: Man of Destiny? | ||
Schiller and the Jesuits | ||
Women Warriors and the Origin of the State: Werner’s Wanda and Kleist’s Penthesilea | ||
Theophanies in German Classicism | ||
Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, and Nationalism in the German-speaking Enlightenment | ||
Joseph II in Cultural Memory | ||
Curiosity in the Austrian Enlightenment | ||
Johann Pezzl: Enlightenment in the Satirical Mode | ||
Joseph Rohrer and the Bureaucratic Enlightenment | ||
Poetry and Scepticism in the Wake of the Austrian Enlightenment: Blumauer, Grillparzer, Lenau | ||
The Complexities of Caroline Pichler: Die Schweden in Prag (1827) | ||
Hoffmann’s Die Elixiere des Teufels and the Lasting Appeal of Conspiracy Theories | ||
Faith and Fossils: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Poem ‘Die Mergelgrube’ | ||
Mörike and the Higher Criticism | ||
‘Conversations with Jehovah’: Heine’s Quarrel with God | ||
Nestroy’s Dickensian Realism | ||
The Limits of Metaphor in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals | ||
Jesuits, Jews and Thugs: Myths of Conspiracy and Infiltration from Dickens to Thomas Mann | ||
Schnitzler’s Honesty | ||
Savonarola in Munich: A Reappraisal of Thomas Mann’s Fiorenza | ||
Sacrifice and Sacrament in The Magic Mountain | ||
Kafka as Anti-Christian: The Judgement, The Metamorphosis, and the Aphorisms | ||
Alfred Döblin’s Feeling for Snow: The Poetry of Fact in Berge Meere und Giganten | ||
‘My True Enemy’: Freud and the Catholic Church, 1927-1939 | ||
List of Publications | ||