Image and Text: J.M.R. Lenz

Introduction. Chapter I: Lenz and the Question of Madness. Image and Self-Image. Chapter II: Lenz's View of his Readers and Self-Representation in Letters. Chapter III: Early Portrayals of Lenz in Periodicals, Letters, and Literary Histories. Literary Politics. Chapter IV: Lenz and Wieland: Friends or Enemies? Chapter V: Der Hofmeister and Die Soldaten in Eighteenth-Century Critical Discourse. Chapter VI: Friedrich Ludwig Schröder's Adaptation of Der Hofmeister. Texts: Chapter VII: Rhetorical Strategies and Social Activism in Über die Soldatenehen and Der Landprediger. Chapter VIII: Love and Fragmentation in Zerbin and Der Waldbruder. Conclusion. Chapter IX: Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and Friederike Brion.