The development of the concept of "simplicity" from classical antiquity to the vernacular literature of the German middle ages /Francis G. Gentry -- Profiles of pastoral protagonists, 1504-1754: derivations and social implications / Gerhart Hoffmeister -- Arcadia revitalized: the international appeal of Gessner's Idylls in the 18th century / Gabrielle Bersier -- Back to the roots: the Teutonic revival from Klopstock to the wars of liberation / Jost Hermand -- Marriage and the not-so-simple life in the 1840s / Nancy Kaiser -- Representing the Expressionist's simple life: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's modern Bohemia / Barbara C. Buenger -- Böll's Utopia : great refusal, small pleasures / Jochen Vogt -- The Greens: images of survival in the early 1980s / Stephen Brockmann, Julia Hell, Reinhilde Wiegmann