{"product_id":"affecting-grace-4","title":"Affecting Grace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffecting Grace\u003c\/em\u003e examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop that includes a number of canonical German authors – Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Lessing, von Kleist, and Nietzsche – as well as the advent of Meissen porcelain, the painting of Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi, and aspects of German styles of architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExtending from Shakespeare’s\u003cem\u003e The Merchant of Venice\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1597) to Kleist’s \u003cem\u003eThe Broken Jug \u003c\/em\u003e(1806), this study turns on the paradox that the German literary world had begun to embrace Shakespeare just as it was firming up the broad but pronounced anti-Baroque sensibility found pivotally in Lessing’s critical and dramatic works. Through these investigations, Calhoon illuminates the deep cultural changes that fundamentally affected Germany’s literary and artistic traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Kenneth S. Calhoon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55075337994620,"sku":"9781442664159","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442664159_b87be336-01c6-4fdf-991f-c7db88ae694e.jpg?v=1743626412","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/affecting-grace-4","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}