Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Nisbet, H. B. (1940-2021)
Titre(s) : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [Texte imprimé] : his life, works, and thought / H.B. Nisbet
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : [xiv], 734 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : "A German version of this book (Lessing: eine Biographie) translated from the English
original by Karl S. Guthke was published in 2008 by the C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich.
Since then, I have revised and updated the original manuscript to make it available
to English-speaking readers."--Preface. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-712) and indexes
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German
Enlightenment and a writer of European significance. His range of interest as dramatist,
poet, critic, philosopher, theologian, philologist and much else besides was comparable
to that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose ideas he engaged. He
contributed decisively to the emergence of German as a literary language and was the
founder of modern German literature, urging his compatriots to look to England rather
than France for literary inspiration. His major plays (including the classic drama
on religious tolerance, Nathan the Wise) are still regularly performed. He was a brilliant
controversialist, and his philosophical and religious writings profoundly shook traditional
assumptions. This book sets his life and work in the context of the intellectual,
social, and cultural background of eighteenth-century Europe
Sujet(s) : Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199679478. - ISBN 0199679479. - ISBN 0191668842. - ISBN 9780191668845 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46579708g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46579708
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Table des matières : Machine generated contents note: ; 1.. Kamenz, Meissen, Leipzig 1729 -- 1748 -- ;
2.. Early Dramas and Poetry -- ; 3.. Berlin 1748 -- 1752: Society; Journalism; Didactic
Poetry -- ; 4.. Wittenberg and Associated Writings 1752 -- 1754: History of Scholarship;
Philosophy; Theology and Religion; Classical Philology; Epigrams -- ; 5.. Berlin 1752
-- 1755: the Academy Quarrel; Translations and Collected Writings; Social Circle and
the Death of Mylius; Mendelssohn, Nicolai, and Other New Friendships; Pope a Metaphysician!
-- ; 6.. From Comedy to Tragedy 1754 -- 1757: the Theatrical Library, Samuel Henzi;
Miss Sara Sampson; Correspondence with Mendelssohn and Nicolai on Tragedy -- ; 7..
Leipzig and Berlin 1755 -- 1759: Travels; Translations and Journalism; Kleist, Gleim,
and the Seven Years War; Philotas -- ; 8.. Berlin 1758 -- 1760: Letters on Literature;
Logau Edition; Fables and Essays on the Fable; Translations of Diderot; Sophocles
-- ; 9.. The Middle Years: War and Peace in Breslau 1760 -- 1765 -- ; 10.. Laocoon;
Last Years in Berlin 1765 -- 1766 -- ; 11.. Minna von Barnhelm -- ; 12.. Hamburg and
the National Theatre -- ; 13.. Hamburg Writings 1767 -- 1770: Hamburg Dramaturgy,
Dramatic Fragments; Antiquarian Letters; How the Ancients Portrayed Death -- ; 14..
Wolfenbuttel and Brunswick; Travels in Germany, Austria, and Italy; Engagement and
Marriage: 1770 -- 1776 -- ; 15.. Lessing, the Library and Related Publications: 1770
-- 1782 -- ; 16.. Miscellaneous Writings; Emilia Galotti: 1770 -- 1775 -- ; 17.. Philosophy
and Theology 1770 -- 1776; Marriage and Family Life; the Mannheim Theatre; Bereavement:
1776 -- 1778 -- ; 18.. Reimarus, Goeze, and the Theological Conflict: 1776 -- 1779
-- ; 19.. The Education of the Human Race and Ernst and Falk -- ; 20.. Nathan the
Wise -- ; 21.. The Final Years 1778 -- 1781: Declining Health; Conversations on Spinoza;
Last Illness and Death; Memorials and Monuments; Lessing's Estate -- ; 22.. Lessing's
Reception: an Outline.
