About this book

This is the first study to demonstrate the impact of Puritan literature on the development of German language and literature in the seventeenth century and beyond. It crosses the boundaries of theology, literature, and the English and German traditions to show that eighteenth-century secular thinking on introspection, psychology and subjectivity has its roots in vocabulary used in Germany as early as 1665 through the translation of figures such as Daniel Dyke and Richard Baxter. The book concludes with insights on John Bunyan, whose works inspired writers of the ‘Geniegeneration’ such as Lenz, Wieland, Moritz and Jung Stilling.

About the author

Peter Damrau is a lecturer in German a the University of London. His research interests are in devotional literature of the 17th century and women’s writing of the 18th century.