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Article: Literature of the Sturm und Drang.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Literature of the Sturm und Drang. Ed. by Davif Hill. (Camden House History of German Literature, 6) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2003. xii+377 pp. $85; 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-174-4.
This lively and informative collection of essays is not an introductory volume providing a series of exemplary readings of key texts, as one might easily imagine from its title. Rather the reader is presented with a variety of approaches to the interpretation of the Sturm und Drang that, taken together, reveal its internal contradictions and its complex relation to the most powerful literary, cultural, and intellectual trends of the eighteenth century.
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