{"product_id":"2026200014699-secondhand-the-classical-age-of-german-literature-1740-1815","title":"The Classical Age Of German Literature 1740–1815","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era of sweeping intellectual and artistic transformation, The Classical Age of German Literature 1740–1815 presents a masterful survey of one of the most fertile periods in the history of Western letters — a century that gave the world Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, and Kant. Victor Lange chronicles the dramatic arc of German literary culture from the early Enlightenment through the age of Weimar Classicism, mapping the currents of Sturm und Drang, aesthetic philosophy, and the humanist ideal that defined an entire civilisation's creative identity. With scholarly precision and elegant prose, Lange argues that this formative period was not merely a regional phenomenon but a decisive force in shaping the broader European literary imagination.\n\nLange's methodology is both historical and critically rigorous, situating individual works and authors within the wider social, philosophical, and aesthetic frameworks of their time. His analysis illuminates the tensions between rationalism and romanticism, between civic virtue and individual genius, that animated the German literary mind. Written with the authority of one of the twentieth century's leading Germanists, this indispensable volume rewards both the specialist and the discerning general reader — and raises the compelling question of what it truly means for a literature to come of age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210284441819,"sku":"2026200014699-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ecbfde6a-3c8c-4c39-ad11-5272ac47f20b.png?v=1788268829","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014699-secondhand-the-classical-age-of-german-literature-1740-1815","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}