Themenheft: Literary Realism Reconsidered from an 18th-Century Perspective Gastherausgeber: Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz und Christian P. Weber Inhalt Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz und Christian P. Weber: Introduction: Literary Realism Reconsidered from an 18th-Century Perspective Christian P. Weber: Out of Ruin: Goethe's Poetic Realism as a Method of Constructive Inquiry Christine Lehleiter: The Reality of Battle: Realism in the Context of Goethe's War Experience Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz: Epistemology, Imagination, and History in Romantic Realism Daniel DiMassa: Stifter, Schleiermacher, and the Vision of a Higher Realism Robert E. Mottram: Stifter's Realism and the Avant-Garde: Affect and Materiality in "Kalkstein"