Stadt und Literatur im deutschen Sprachraum der Frühen Neuzeit

The articles assembled here originated at an international conference organized in Osnabrück (Germany) in 1994 with funding from the German Research Association (DFG). It was notable for the first-time participation of numerous scholars from Latvia and Estonia, Lithuania and the Ukraine, Poland and Russia. This made it possible to supplement the customary bias towards the west and centre of Europe with contributions casting light on the former German-speaking territories in Eastern Europe. Concentrating on the period between 1560 and 1730/1740, the middle phase of early modern municipal literature and culture, the volume provides an unprecedentedly rich source of material which may serve as an initial basis for the as yet unwritten history of German literature town by town and region by region.