The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.

Nicholas Saul (Edited by)

9780521613262, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 July 2009

362 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.58 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literature: history & criticism [DS]