Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-398) and index
What is classicism? / Dieter Borchmeyer -- Antiquity and Weimar classicism / Charles A. Grair -- The correspondences’ noncorrespondence : Goethe, Schiller and the Briefwechsel / Gail Hart -- Johann Gottfried Herder: the Weimar classic back of the (city) church / Thomas P. Saine -- Drama and theatrical practice in Weimar / Jane K. Brown -- German classical poetry / Cyrus Hamlin -- The novel in Weimar classicism: symbolic form and symbolic pregnance / R.H. Stephenson -- German women writers and classicism / Elisabeth Krimmer -- Weimar classicism as visual culture / Helmut Pfotenhauer -- The irrelevance of aesthetics and the de-theorizing of the self in "classical" Weimar / Benjamin Bennett -- Goethe’s "classical" science / Astrida Orle Tantillo -- The political context of Weimar classicism / W. Daniel Wilson.