The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

by Nicholas Saul (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139801218
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/09/2009
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Literature
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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

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.