Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel
By Scott Abbott.
Description
In the eighteenth century, Freemasonry was a powerful social institution for the moral world and, as such, exerted an enormous influence on the literature of that century and those that followed. In Fictions of Freemasonry, Scott Abbott provides new insights into fictional works of German literature from three centuries, showing that many novelists used Masonic symbols, customs, and written and oral traditions as their intertexts. Abbott's introductory chapter sketches the history of Freemasonry through the eighteenth century and demonstrates that the sphere of Masonic influence was ...
ISBN(s)
0814319920, 9780814319925
