{"product_id":"affecting-grace-9781442645998","title":"Affecting Grace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffecting Grace\u003c\/em\u003e examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop that includes a number of canonical German authors – Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Lessing, von Kleist, and Nietzsche – as well as the advent of Meissen porcelain, the painting of Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi, and aspects of German styles of architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtending from Shakespeare’s\u003cem\u003e The Merchant of Venice\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1597) to Kleist’s \u003cem\u003eThe Broken Jug \u003c\/em\u003e(1806), this study turns on the paradox that the German literary world had begun to embrace Shakespeare just as it was firming up the broad but pronounced anti-Baroque sensibility found pivotally in Lessing’s critical and dramatic works. Through these investigations, Calhoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Calhoon's book offers an important contribution to Shakespeare scholarship within German studies that nicely complements previous publications in this area...A rich study of eighteenth-century theatre and its influence on litterature and aesthetics.' -- Olivia Landry German Studies Review, vol 37:02:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Illustrations  Introduction  Chapter One: Mercy and the Spirit of Commerce: Shylock's Shadow in the Age of Disinterest  Chapter Two: Judging Adam: Theater and the Fall into History  Chapter Three: The Virtue of Things: Meissen Porcelain and the Classical Object  Chapter Four: Of Praise and Poison in Hamlet and Miss Sara Sampson  Chapter Five: Scenic Fantasies: Bellotto in Dresden-Goethe in Strasbourg  Chapter Six: Sovereign Innocence: Schiller's \"Walk\" and the Naive Spectator  Chapter Seven: Caught in the Act: The Comedic Miscarriage of Kleist's Broken Jug  Epilogue  Bibliography  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187500048727,"sku":"9781442645998","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affecting-grace-9781442645998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}