The eighteenth century was a time of social and cultural change. Otium and leisure were no longer the preserve of the privileged upper classes but could now be enjoyed by an ever-increasing middle class. The articles in this volume look at otiose leisure from the perspectives of German, English and Romance studies, analysing a broad range of practices from spiritual contemplation to visits to the opera.
The eighteenth century was a time of social and cultural change. Otium and leisure were no longer the preserve of the privileged upper classes but could now be enjoyed by an ever-increasing middle class. The articles in this volume look at otiose leisure from the perspectives of German, English and Romance studies, analysing a broad range of practices from spiritual contemplation to visits to the opera.
Table of contents:
Kerstin Fest: Einleitung -
Rudolf Behrens: Imagination und Muße. Eine delikate Kreuzung im französischen 18. Jahrhundert -
Ralph Häfner: Muße zwischen Heroismus und Faulheit. Friedrich Schlegel und die "Idylle über den Müssiggang" in ihren traditionsgeschichtlichen Hintergründen -
Dieter Martin: Das Insel-Paradies als Muße-Raum. Zur Funktion erzählter Lebensgeschichten bei Grimmelshausen und Schnabel -
Barbara Thums: "Muße, Maß Idylle. Konstellationen im 18. Jahrhundert" -
Peter C. Pohl: Geregelte Muße. Dinge und freie Zeiten in Jean-Jacques Rousseaus Émile und Joachim Heinrich Campes Robinson der Jüngere -
Mark-GeorgDehrmann: "Muße geben". Muße, Buchmarkt und Autorscha! im 18. Jahrhundert am Beispiel Klopstocks und Basedows -
Michael Burden: Masquerading at the London Opera houses; or, 'The dangers of leisure' -
Kerstin Fest: "As "ne and free a Gentleman": David Garrick's Performances of Leisure -
Sabine Volk-Birke: Leisure and Devotion: Friends or Foes? -
Anne Bandry-Scubbi: Leisure in 'Feminine' Fiction, 1751-1834 -
Monika Fludernik: Idling in Restoration Comedy: The Semantics of Idleness in British Plays From 1660 to 1710
