Download or read book The Emergence of German as a Literary Language 1700-1775 written by Eric A. Blackall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Blackall's 1959 book cuts across the usual distinction between 'literature' and 'linguistics' in the study of modern languages. It sheds light on the eighteenth century and the general movement from seventeenth-century language to ease, pliability and grace, and then to the tremendous literary achievement of the age of Goethe.