Steussy, Frederic S.
Eighteenth-Century German Autobiography

The Emergence of Individuality.

This study focuses on the various tentative and incomplete manifestations of individuality in German autobiography in the three decades before the appearance of Goethe's 'Dichtung und Wahrheit'. The authors treated are Peter Prosch, Johann Christian Brandes, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Friedrich Christian Laukhard, Salomon Maimon, Johann Seume, Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, Ulrich Bräker, and Karl Philipp Moritz. The works are divided into three groups of three, based on shared common characteristics and examined in order of increasing depth and complexity of self-presentation. 231 Seiten, gebunden (Studies in Modern German Literature; vol. 69/Peter Lang Verlag 1996) Mängelexemplar