Storia della letteratura tedesca. Dal Tardo Illuminismo all'età delle avanguardie.

This volume, the first part of a project on the history of modern and contemporary German literature, takes as its starting point what can be described as the ‘workshop of a new humanism in European culture’, developing from the Late Enlightenment to the 1920s. It is addressed to students and scholars, as well as to those who want to delve into the extraordinary literary flowering of the German-speaking countries in the modern age, which were able to offer the world culture, among many others, authors of the calibre of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Hölderlin, Kleist, Lichtenberg, Hoffmann, Stifter, Hesse, Walser, Kafka, Musil and the Mann brothers. Each period is introduced by a comprehensive overview, which reconstructs the historical and cultural context and considers the intertwining of literary and poetic works with the critical thinking, artistic phenomena and scientific discoveries of the time. The individual movements and authors are always analysed in order to capture a salient characteristic of which they are an expression. A short summary of the most representative works of the various literary phases complements the excursus on the lives and activities of the protagonists, covering the genres, themes and motifs in which they distinguished themselves.