Richard E. Schade

The Lessing Yearbook, the official publication of the Lessing Society, is a valuable source of information on German culture, literature, and thought of the eighteenth century. Articles are in German or English.

The Lessing Yearbook

Lessing Yearbook XXI

Lessing Yearbook XXV

Herbert Rowland

Arno Schilson

A comprehensive look at all issues relating to Lessing's philosophies. The Lessing Yearbook, the official publication of the Lessing Society, is a valuable source of information on German culture, literature, and thought of the eighteenth century. Articles are in German or English. Essays in this volume explore a wide variety of subjects pertaining to class and gender, identity formation, and art in Lessing's work, as well as Lessing's philosphy on music and poetry. Past issues have included comprehensive studies of this seminal thinker. The previous issue, Volume XXXIII, is dedicated to co-founder, Guy Stern in honor of his eightieth birthday. This issue and other back issues are also available.

Lessing Yearbook

Lessing Yearbook Xii, 1980

Lessing Yearbook XX

Dieter Sevin

The essay reads an Enlightened and modern critique of progress in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. With numerous references to other operas and texts, and with a storyline that emphasizes inevitable, yet mutable aspects of human nature, Cosi presents an ambivalent picture of the ways in which even the most disinterested and best-informed attitude toward the past can affect the future. At the same time, the opera seems to embrace the notion of freedom of choice without rejecting tradition or repetition. The essay also comments on the performance of Cosi in Zurich in 2000, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who often works with authentic period instruments.

The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment ; Festschrift for John A. McCarthy

Practicing Progress

George C. Schoolfield

James A. Parente

University of North Carolina Press

These essays discuss approaches to early modern literature in central Europe, focusing on four pivotal areas: connections between humanism and the new scientific thought; the relationship of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century literature to ancient and Renaissance European traditions; the social and political context of early modern writing; and the poets' self-consciousness about their work. As a whole, the volume argues that early modern writing in central Europe should not be viewed solely as literature but as the textual product of specific social, political, educational, religious, and economic circumstances. The contributors are Judith P. Aikin, Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Thomas W. Best, Dieter Breuer, Barton W. Browning, Gerald Gillespie, Anthony Grafton, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Uwe-K. Ketelsen, Joseph Leighton, Ulrich Mache, Michael M. Metzger, James A. Parente, Jr., Richard Erich Schade, George C. Schoolfield, Peter Skrine, and Ferdinand van Ingen.

Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720

John A. McCarthy

Lessing Yearbook 2000

Katharina Gerstenberger

Lessing Yearbook XXVIII

Lessing Yearbook XXIV

Susanne Kord

This official publication of the Lessing Society, is a source of information on German culture, literature and thought in the 18th century.

Lessing Yearbook XXVI

The Lessing Yearbook, the official publication of the Lessing Society, is a valuable source of information on German culture, literature, and thought of the eighteenth century. Articles are in German or English. Essays in this volume explore a wide variety of subjects pertaining to class and gender, identity formation, and art in Lessing's work, as well as Lessing's philosphy on music and poetry.

Richard E. Schade

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