The literature of German Romanticism

Author(s)

• Mahoney, Dennis F.

Bibliographic Information

The literature of German Romanticism

edited by Dennis F. Mahoney

（Camden House history of German literature, v. 8）

Camden House, 2004

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-394) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Sharply focused essays on the most significant aspects of German Romanticism. This volume of sharply focused essays by an international team of scholars deals not only with the most significant literary, philosophical, and cultural aspects of German Romanticism -- one of the most influential, albeit highlycontroversial movements in the history of German literature -- but also with the history and status of scholarship on the literature of the period. The introduction and first section establish an overall framework by placing German Romanticism within a European context that includes its English counterpart. Goethe and Schiller are considered, as are the Jena Romantics. The second section is organized according to the traditional distinctions between epic,dramatic, and lyric modes of writing, while realizing that particularly in the Romantic novel, there was an attempt to blend these three. A final group of essays focuses on German literary Romanticism's relation to other aspects of German culture: folklore studies, politics, psychology, natural science, gender presentation and representation, music, and visual art. Contributors: Gerhard Schulz, Arnd Bohm, Richard Littlejohns, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Ulrich Scheck, Claudia Stockinger, Bernadette Malinowski, Fabian Lampart, Klaus Peter, Gabriele Rommel, Martha B. Helfer, Kristina Muxfeldt, Beate Allert, Paul Bishop and R. H. Stephenson, Nicholas Saul Dennis F. Mahoney is Professor of German and Director of the European Studies Program at the University of Vermont.

Table of Contents

From "romantick" to "Romantic": The Genesis of German Romanticism in Late-Eighteenth-Century Europe - Gerhard Schulz Goethe and the Romantics - Arnd Bohm Early Romanticism - Richard Littlejohns From Goethe's Wilhelm Meister to anti-Meister Novels: The Romantic Novel between Tieck's William Lovell and Hoffmann's Kater Murrand Hoffmann's Kater Murr - Gerhart Hoffmeister Tales of Wonder and Terror: Short Prose of the German Romantics - Ulrich Scheck The Romantic Drama: Tieck, Brentano, Arnim, Fouque, and Eichendorff - Claudia Stockinger German Romantic Poetry in Theory and Practice: The Schlegel Brothers, Schelling, Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, Brentano, and HeineEichendorff, Brentano, and Heine - Bernadette Malinowski The Turn to History and the Volk: Brentano, Arnim, and the Grimm Brothers - Fabian Lampart History and Moral Imperatives: The Contradictions of Political Romanticism - Klaus Peter German Romanticism and Natural Science - Habil. Gabriele Rommel The Romantic Preoccupation with Musical Meaning - Kristina Muxfeldt Romanticism and the Visual Arts - Beate Allert Goethe's Late Verse (this essay has two authors) - and Paul Bishop The Reception of German Romanticism in the Twentieth Century - N.D.B. Saul

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Details

• NCID: BA66172736
• ISBN:
  • 1571132368
• LCCN: 2003017146
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Rochester, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 419 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Romanticism -- Germany
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA53547847