Influential texts such as Loen's Honest Man at Court, Haller's Usong, and Wieland's The Golden Mirror form a clearly defined genre that serves to transmit political knowledge through narrative. The study reconstructs the emergence of the genre, from the productive transformation of its French forerunners to the functional changes that occurred around 1800, combining questions of narrative technique and the political purpose of storytelling.

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Christopher Meid, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.