THE LIFE OF THE SWEDISH COUNTESS*** (hardcover)
Author: | Van Cleve, John W. |
Year: | 2024 |
Pages: | 192 |
ISBN: | 1-4955-1308-4 978-1-4955-1308-4 |
Price: | $159.95 + shipping |
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The Fables and Tales and the Swedish Countess were
ensconced in the German canon of literature well into the
nineteenth century. But Gellert’s renown faded in the twentieth,
a development that can be traced in part to the profound
disillusionment and cynicism that set in after the World Wars
and the Holocaust. It is understandable that the continent that
produced philosophical optimism in the eighteenth century and
Auschwitz in the twentieth would find much of the thinking of
Enlightenment figures like Gellert naïve, even passé.
Saxony was one of the many states large and small that
belonged to the vast and slowly failing Holy Roman Empire of
the German Nation, the capital of which was Vienna.
Table of Contents
Contents
Translator’s Preface i
The Life of the Swedish Countess of G*** 1
Translator’s Commentary 177
Reference 177
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