The elusiveness of tolerance : the "Jewish question" from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars /
Analyzing literary works - from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" (1779) to Sessa's "Unser Verkehr" (1812/15) - and political and philosophical tracts, shows the transition from an enlightened, emancipatory literature to an antisemitic literature in the early 19th century. T...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | [Open access ebook edition] |
| Series: | University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ;
no. 117. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The beginnings of the tolerance debate
- Jewish identity in a changing world
- Emancipatory drama after Lessing
- Myths of ethnic homogeneity : anti-Semitic literature after 1800
- Concluding remarks : beyond the tolerance debate