Author(s): Leo Lowenthal
Series: Communication in Society, Vol. 2
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Year: 1986
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Social Meanings in Literature
Part I: Studies on the European Drama and Novel from the Renaissance to the Threshold of Modernity
1 The Spanish Dramatists
Lope de Vega, 1562–1635
Calderon, 1600–1681
2 Cervantes, 1547–1616
Mobility: Sancho Panza
Creativity: Dulcinea
Property: The Gypsies
Justice: Don Quixote
3 Shakespeare’s The Tempest
The Concept of Human Nature
Five Themes on the Island
Secularized Humility
Excursus A: The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1
4 The Classical French Theater
Corneille, 1606–1684
Racine, 1639–1699
Molière, 1622–1673
5 From Werther to Wilhelm Meister
Individualism and the Middle Class
Werther: The Dislocated Individual
Wilhelm Meister: The Integrated Individual
World Literature and Popular Culture
6 Henrik Ibsen, 1828–1906
Private Life and Social Forces
The Dilemma of Freedom and Necessity
Excursus B: Note on August Strindberg
7 Knut Hamsun, 1860–1952
Nature
Hero Worship
Urban Society
Nihilism
Part II: Studies on the German Novel in the Nineteenth Century
8 Romanticism: Revolution Repressed
9 “Young Germany”: Prehistory of Bourgeois Consciousness
10 Eduard Mörike: Troubled Embourgeoisement
11 Gustav Freytag: Bourgeois Materialism
12 Friedrich Spielhagen: Bourgeois Idealism
13 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Apologia of the Upper Class
14 Gottfried Keller: Bourgeois Repression
Afterword: From Helmut Dubiel, Editor of the German Edition of This Volume
