Session Details

Monday, 28 December

136. Esotericism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The New Religion

8:30–9:45 a.m., Commonwealth Hall A2, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature

Presiding: Karin Lynn Schutjer, Univ. of Oklahoma

1. “The Secret of the Divine Sophia: Theosophy, Androgyny, and Women’s Writing,” Lucinda Martin, Martin Luther Universität Halle

2. “Hermeticism and the Formulation of Liberal Theology in the Late Enlightenment,” Peter Reill, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

3. “Goethe as Mystagogue,” Frederick R. Amrine, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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