From the late seventeenth century into the eighteenth, critics and authors in Germany defended the Novel: indeed it depicted vice and immorality, but only with the intention of exhorting the reader to avoid such dangers to the soul. This Book examines outstanding novels of life from the Thirty Years' War to the

From the late seventeenth century into the eighteenth, critics and authors in Germany defended the Novel: indeed it depicted vice and immorality, but only with the intention of exhorting the reader to avoid such dangers to the soul. This Book examines outstanding novels of life from the Thirty Years' War to the