Salomon Gessner: His Creative Achievement and Influence - Couverture rigide

Hibberd, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521212340 ISBN 13 : 9780521212342

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1976

Synopsis

This 1976 book contextualises Salomon Gessner, traces the story of his impact and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At a time when German was generally despised as a barbaric tongue, Salomon Gessner was hailed in Europe as a poet of universal significance. Yet today he is scarcely known. John Hibberd sets the writer in context, traces the story of his impact, and stresses his significance as a key to the taste of his age. He finds the reasons for Gessner's remarkable success in his appeal to the feeling for nature and natural simplicity nascent in the mid-eighteenth century, and in his ability to be many things to many men by reconciling the main cultural trends of that time - Pre-Romanticism and Neo-Classicism. Originally published in 1976, this was the first book on the subject in English. It went beyond previous books on Gessner in both detail and scope; it called for a greater appreciation of Gessner's historical importance, but also assesed his achievements as a writer, engraver and painter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521212340
• ISBN 13: 9780521212342
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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