Part1: The Philosophical Features of the Age of Enlightenment in Germany
1. The Determining Factors: A Diversity of Approaches
2. A New Reading Public
3. The Philosophical Assumptions
4. The Historical Background
Part2: Rationalism and Classicism
1. New Approaches
2. New Norms: Gottsched
Part3: Sentimentalism and the Spirit of Rococo
1. The Challenge from Switzerland: Bodmer and Breitinger
2. The Challenge from Germany
3. Diversity in Drama: Kruger and Weisse
4. Diversity in Poetry
5. The Use of Satire: Liscow, Rabner and Zachariae
Part4. New Standards
1. Klopstock and the Development of Lyric Poetry
2. Wieland and the Development of the Novel
3. Lessing and the Development of Drama
Part5: Sturm und Drang
1. A Change in Direction
2. Young Goethe
3. Fascination with the Stage
4. Drawn to Nature: The ‘Gottinger Hain’
5. A Critical Look at the Period: Lichtenburg