Literature and the Image of Man

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Social Meanings in Literature
Part I: Studies on the European Drama and Novel from the Renaissance to the Threshold of Modernity
	1 The Spanish Dramatists
		Lope de Vega, 1562–1635
		Calderon, 1600–1681
	2 Cervantes, 1547–1616
		Mobility: Sancho Panza
		Creativity: Dulcinea
		Property: The Gypsies
		Justice: Don Quixote
	3 Shakespeare’s The Tempest
		The Concept of Human Nature
		Five Themes on the Island
		Secularized Humility
	Excursus A: The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1
	4 The Classical French Theater
		Corneille, 1606–1684
		Racine, 1639–1699
		Molière, 1622–1673
	5 From Werther to Wilhelm Meister
		Individualism and the Middle Class
		Werther: The Dislocated Individual
		Wilhelm Meister: The Integrated Individual
		World Literature and Popular Culture
	6 Henrik Ibsen, 1828–1906
		Private Life and Social Forces
		The Dilemma of Freedom and Necessity
	Excursus B: Note on August Strindberg
	7 Knut Hamsun, 1860–1952
		Nature
		Hero Worship
		Urban Society
		Nihilism
Part II: Studies on the German Novel in the Nineteenth Century
	8 Romanticism: Revolution Repressed
	9 “Young Germany”: Prehistory of Bourgeois Consciousness
	10 Eduard Mörike: Troubled Embourgeoisement
	11 Gustav Freytag: Bourgeois Materialism
	12 Friedrich Spielhagen: Bourgeois Idealism
	13 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Apologia of the Upper Class
	14 Gottfried Keller: Bourgeois Repression
	Afterword: From Helmut Dubiel, Editor of the German Edition of This Volume