Bøker av John W. Van Cleve

Analyses the influence of the merchant class on what Leo Balet termed the Verburgerlichung (the'becoming middle-class') of German literature during the eighteenth century. John Van Cleve describes the origins and development of the class and examines its successive images in works by Haller, Schnabel, Schlegel, Gellert, Lessing, and others.

Bach's Changing World is a study of popular culture in the community in which Bach spent the last, the longest, and the most productive part of his life: the Leipzig middle-class.