Lessing and the 'Sturm und Drang': a Reappraisal Revisited.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Baughan, James | Copyright information

Lessing and the 'Sturm und Drang': A Reappraisal Revisited. By KAREN OTTEWELL. (Europaische Aufklarung in Literatur und Sprache, 14) Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang. 2002. 280 pp. 51.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-631-38784-9 (pbk).

Situated between the aesthetic polarities of Gottsched's Aristotelian conservatism and the unfettered dramaturgy of the Sturm und Drang, Lessing largely emancipated the German stage from neo-classical constraints and heralded an era in which his call for geniu...

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