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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America: Discourse and Criticism

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America: Discourse and Criticism

Rowland, Herbert

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 262

Art Criticism & TheoryLiterary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 1640142053
ISBN13: 9781640142053
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist, critic, art theorist, and theological thinker.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a leading figure in the humanist revival in German culture that culminated in Weimar Classicism. His plays and drama criticism mark the rise of middle-class forms and values and influenced contemporaries and successors alike. His work in art theory still stimulates discussion, while his liberal theological writing has had a perhaps even greater impact. In the US, Lessing first drew major attention during the German craze of the early nineteenth century and achieved his greatest fame during the third quarter of the century. His drama criticism and views on theology and the arts became entrenched in a robust American discourse about those subjects. Many Americans thought of him less as a historical figure than as a virtual contemporary.

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