[A]n in-depth analysis of recently emerging authors . . . . [T]he chapters provide a neat snapshot of a decade's worth of literary productivity in Germany . . . . [Recommended] for graduate students and scholars, it should be at the top of the acquisitions list for research libraries.

• IntroductionThe Powers of Desire: The Debate on the Novel in Eighteenth-Century GermanyThe Pleasures of Fiction: Christoph Martin Weiland's Der Sieg der Natur über die Schwärmerey oder Die Abentheuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalvades Don Sylvio von RosalvaSeductive Strategies and the Promise of Knowledge: Wieland's Geschichte des AgathonA Story of Her Own: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von SternheimNarrating Nothing: Maria Anna Sagar's Karolinens Tagebuch ohne ausserordentliche Handlungen, oder gerade so viel als gar keinegar keineEpilogue: Caveat LectorWorks ConsultedNotesIndex

[A]n in-depth analysis of recently emerging authors . . . . [T]he chapters provide a neat snapshot of a decade's worth of literary productivity in Germany . . . . [Recommended] for graduate students and scholars, it should be at the top of the acquisitions list for research libraries.

• IntroductionThe Powers of Desire: The Debate on the Novel in Eighteenth-Century GermanyThe Pleasures of Fiction: Christoph Martin Weiland's Der Sieg der Natur über die Schwärmerey oder Die Abentheuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalvades Don Sylvio von RosalvaSeductive Strategies and the Promise of Knowledge: Wieland's Geschichte des AgathonA Story of Her Own: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von SternheimNarrating Nothing: Maria Anna Sagar's Karolinens Tagebuch ohne ausserordentliche Handlungen, oder gerade so viel als gar keinegar keineEpilogue: Caveat LectorWorks ConsultedNotesIndex

[A]n in-depth analysis of recently emerging authors . . . . [T]he chapters provide a neat snapshot of a decade's worth of literary productivity in Germany . . . . [Recommended] for graduate students and scholars, it should be at the top of the acquisitions list for research libraries.

• IntroductionThe Powers of Desire: The Debate on the Novel in Eighteenth-Century GermanyThe Pleasures of Fiction: Christoph Martin Weiland's Der Sieg der Natur über die Schwärmerey oder Die Abentheuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalvades Don Sylvio von RosalvaSeductive Strategies and the Promise of Knowledge: Wieland's Geschichte des AgathonA Story of Her Own: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von SternheimNarrating Nothing: Maria Anna Sagar's Karolinens Tagebuch ohne ausserordentliche Handlungen, oder gerade so viel als gar keinegar keineEpilogue: Caveat LectorWorks ConsultedNotesIndex