In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the German Enlightenment.

Introduction: Literary Historiography, the Canon, and the Rest - Johannes Birgfeld and Michael WoodPART 1. POETRYCuring both Body and Soul. The Physician as Poet in the Works of Daniel Wilhelm Triller - Kristin EichhornDaniel Stoppe's Fables: A "Second-Tier" Version of the Genre in the Early Enlightenment? - Stephanie Blum"Nicht unsrer Lesewelt, und nicht der Ewigkeit": Late Style in Gleim's Zeit- and Sinngedichte (1792-1803) - Ellen PilsworthPART 2. THE NOVELDifficulties of a Statesman: Johann Michael von Loen and Der redliche Mann am Hofe - Ritchie RobertsonExpanding the Eighteenth-Century Novel between England and Germany: Sentiment, Experience, and the Self - Sarah Vandegrift EldridgeAn Unoriginal Modernity: The Novelist-Translator Friedrich von Oertel - Leonard von MorzePART 3. DRAMA AND THEATERTheater for an Urban Audience: Adam Gottfried Uhlichs Der Jungfernstieg and Der Götterkrieg - Johannes BirgfeldStepping Out of Götz's Shadow: Jacob Maier, the Ritterstück, and the Historical Drama - Michael Wood"You can go to hell with your Chinese bridge": August von Kotzebue's Most Successful Play Menschenhaß und Reue and the European Garden Revolution - Julia BohnengelPART 4. PHILOSOPHY AND CRITICISMA Troll Emerges: The Beginning of August Friedrich Cranz's Career as a Provocateur - Jonathan Blake FineSecond-Tier Writing in Catholic Germany: Eulogius Schneider (1756-1794) as Professor of Aesthetics and Poet - J. C. LeesPerformativity and "Poetic" Epistemology: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten's Response to Moses Mendelssohn's Aesthetics - Joanna Raisbeck