
The Shepherd, the <I>Volk</I>, and the Middle Class
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ELYSTAN GRIFFITHS is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in German Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of the monographs Political Change and Human Emancipation in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist (2005) and The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class: Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850 (2020). Along with David Hill, he published the first complete edition of J.M.R. Lenz's writings on social and military reform, based on extensive manuscript holdings in Kraków, Berlin and Riga. He is currently working on a project on the relationship between obedience and agency in German culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Pastoral in the Enlightenment: Salomon Gessner's Idylls
"Wo giebts dann Schäfer wie diese?": Friedrich "Maler" Müller's Idylls of Cultural Renewal
Johann Heinrich Voss's Experiments with an Enlightened Idyll
Goethe and Schiller's Engagements with Pastoral: Facing the Post-Revolutionary World
Heinrich von Kleist: The Promises and Illusions of Pastoral
Pastoral in the Age of Capital: Eduard Mörike and Johann Nestroy
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