This is the first fully up-to-date research monograph on Ewald Christian von Kleist (17151759). By analyzing his principal work "Der Frühling", the study situates Kleist's literary oeuvre with regard to the themes of nature and its destruction, rural life, politics and melancholy as well as the moral philosophical, anthropological, and religious context of his era.

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Christoph Willmitzer, Dresden.