History and Moral Imperatives: The Contradictions of Political Romanticism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction 1
7. From “Romantick” To “Romantic”: The Genesis of German Romanticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe 25
8. Goethe and the Romantics 35
9. Early Romanticism 61
10. From Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister to anti-Meister Novels: The Romantic Novel between Tieck’s William Lovell and Hoffmann’s Kater Murr 79
11. Tales of Wonder and Terror: Short Prose of the German Romantics 101
12. The Romantic Drama: Tieck, Brentano, Arnim, Fouqué, and Eichendorff 125
13. German Romantic Poetry in Theory and Practice: The Schlegel Brothers, Schelling, Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, Brentano, and Heine 147
14. The Turn to History and the Volk: Brentano, Arnim, and the Grimm Brothers 171
15. History and Moral Imperatives: The Contradictions of Political Romanticism 191
16. Romanticism and Natural Science 209
17. Gender Studies and Romanticism 229
18. The Romantic Preoccupation with Musical Meaning 251
19. Romanticism and the Visual Arts 273
20. Goethe’s Late Verse 307
21. The Reception of German Romanticism in the Twentieth Century 327
22. Works Cited 361
23. Notes on the Contributors 395
24. Index 399