Carefully focused essays on major aspects of one of the most
significant German literary movements, the Storm and Stress. Sturm
und Drang refers to a set of values and a style of writing that
arose in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, a
particularly intense kind of pre-Romanticism that has often been
represented as marking the beginning of an independent modern
German culture. The circle of writers around the young Goethe,
including Herder, Lenz, Klinger, and later Schiller, felt
frustrated by the Enlightenment world of reason, balance, and
control, and turned instead to nature as the source of authentic
experience. Inspired by Rousseau and Herder, by Shakespeare, and by
folk culture, they rebelled against propriety and experimented with
new literary forms, their creative energy bursting through
conventions that seemed staid and artificial. The Sturm und Drang
has often been cited by those attempting to legitimate nationalism
and irrationalism, but scholars have more recently emphasized the
diversity of the movement and the links between it and the
Enlightenment. This volume of essays by leading scholars from the
UK, the US, and Germany illuminates the guiding ideas of the
movement, discussing its most important authors, texts, and ideas,
and taking account of the variety and complexity of the movement,
placing it more securely within late-eighteenth-century European
history. The main focus is on literature, and in particular on the
drama, which was of special importance to the Sturm und Drang.
However, the essays also outline the social conditions that gave
rise to the movement, and consideration is given to different
currents of ideas that underlie the movement, including areas of
thought and bodies of work that traditional approaches have tended
to marginalize. Contributors: Bruce Duncan, Howard Gaskill, Wulf
Koepke, Susanne Kord, Frank Lamport, Alan Leidner, Matthias
Luserke, Michael Patterson, Gerhard Sauder, Margaret Stoljar,
Daniel Wilson, Karin Wurst. David Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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