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The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

Editor:
Nicholas Saul, University of Durham
Azade Seyhan, Ricarda Schmidt, Anthony Phelan, Charlie Louth, Roger Paulin, John A. McCarthy, Jane K. Brown, Gesa Dane, Carl Niekerk, Nicholas Saul, Andrew Bowie, Ethel Matala de Mazza, Jürgen Barkhoff, Richard Littlejohns, Andrew Bowie, Margarete Kohlenbach
Published:
August 2009
Availability:
Available
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521613262

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    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual chapters not only introduce the reader to individual writers such as Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Eichendorff, Heine, Hoffmann, Kleist, Schiller and Tieck, but also treat key concepts of Romantic music, painting, philosophy, gender and cultural anthropology, science and criticism in concise and lucid language. All German quotations are translated to make this volume fully accessible to a wide audience interested in how Romanticism evolved across Europe. Brief biographies and bibliographies are supplemented by a list of primary and secondary further reading in both English and German.

    • Covers Schlegel, Novalis, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and many other writers and artists
    • Fully accessible to scholars and students of Romantic literature without German language skills
    • Includes a chronology, an appendix of key authors and their works, and a guide to further reading

    Product details

    • Published: August 2009
    • Format: Hardback
    • ISBN: 9780521848916
    • Length: 362 pages
    • Dimensions: 235 × 158 × 21 mm
    • Weight: 0.69kg
    • Contains: 2 b/w illus.
    • Availability: Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Chronology
    • 1. What is Romanticism, and where did it come from? Azade Seyhan
    • 2. From early to late Romanticism Ricarda Schmidt
    • 3. Prose fiction of the German Romantics Anthony Phelan
    • 4. The Romantic lyric Charlie Louth
    • 5. The Romantic drama Roger Paulin
    • 6. Forms and objectives of Romantic criticism John A. McCarthy
    • 7. Romanticism and Classicism Jane K. Brown
    • 8. Women writers and Romanticism Gesa Dane
    • 9. The Romantics and other cultures Carl Niekerk
    • 10. Love, death and Liebestod in German Romanticism Nicholas Saul
    • 11. Romantic philosophy and religion Andrew Bowie
    • 12. Romantic politics and society Ethel Matala de Mazza
    • 13. Romantic science and psychology Jürgen Barkhoff
    • 14. German Romantic painters Richard Littlejohns
    • 15. Romanticism and music Andrew Bowie
    • 16. Transformations of German Romanticism 1830–2000 Margarete Kohlenbach
    • Key authors and their works
    • Guide to further reading
    • Index.

    Contributors

    Azade Seyhan, Ricarda Schmidt, Anthony Phelan, Charlie Louth, Roger Paulin, John A. McCarthy, Jane K. Brown, Gesa Dane, Carl Niekerk, Nicholas Saul, Andrew Bowie, Ethel Matala de Mazza, Jürgen Barkhoff, Richard Littlejohns, Andrew Bowie, Margarete Kohlenbach

    Editor

    Nicholas Saul , University of Durham

    Nicholas Saul is Professor of German at the University of Durham.