First English translation of a small masterpiece of the German Enlightenment.
This interesting but neglected eighteenth-century novel, by von Loën - a successful merchant and a great-uncle of Goethe - comes at the end of the tradition in which members of upper-class society narrate their life-stories; the author uses the device to show the education of a prince to bring about a paragon of nobility. As a whole, it provides a revealing mirror of the attitudes of the German enlightenment. First English translation.
JOHN RUSSELL is Professor Emeritus of German at SUNY Stony Brook.
- ISBN10 1571131086
- ISBN13 9781571131089
- Publish Date 3 July 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2023
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint Camden House Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 228
- Language English