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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor both students and scholars, this volume offers an informative and up-to-date overview of the most essential research topics in this area and poses questions that open up opportunities for further research and development.
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Eighteenth-century studiesTable of ContentsRitchie Robertson, Preface
Note on references
H. B. Nisbet, Lessing’s achievement
Romira Worvill, Lessing and the French Enlightenment
Alexander Košenina and Ritchie Robertson, Lessing as journalist and controversialist
Richard E. Schade, Lessing’s poetry
John T. Hamilton, Reception, gratitude and obligation: Lessing and the classical tradition
Jason Gaiger, The contemporaneity of Lessing’s aesthetics
Thomas Martinec, Lessing’s dramatic theory
Francis Lamport, ‘Solcher Väter giebt es keinen mehr’: paternal authority in Lessing’s tragedies
K. F. Hilliard, Lessing’s comedies
Jonathan M. Hess, Lessing and German–Jewish culture: a reappraisal
Adam Sutcliffe, Lessing and toleration
David Hill, Enlightenment as a historical process:
Ernst und Falk and
Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts Christoph Bultmann, Lessing and the Bible
Karl S. Guthke, Lessing and science
A chronology of the life and major works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Summaries
List of contributors
Bibliography
Index
