Xavier de Maistre and Angelology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. (Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France Introduction 1
5. ‘That war with softer cares may be united’: Harriet Lee, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, the Thirty Years’ War, and the Politics of Adaptation 9
6. From Sentiment to Sexuality: English Werther-Stories, the French Revolution, and German Vampires 25
7. Radical Translations: Dubious Anglo-German Cultural Transfer in the 1790s 44
8. Goethe and Schiller, Peasants and Students: Weimar and the French Revolution 61
9. Revolution, Abolition, Aesthetic Sublimation: German Responses to News from France in the 1790s 72
10. Print and Preserve: Periodicals in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany 88
11. Aesthetics and Politics in the Journal London und Paris (1798–1815) 102
12. Changing Authorities on HMS Bounty: The Public Images of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian in the Context of Late Eighteenth-Century Political and Intellectual Conditions 119
13. A Fictional Response to the Categorical Imperative: Women Refugees, Servants and Slaves in Charrière’s Trois femmes 142
14. Sade, Revolution, and the Boundaries of Freedom 157
15. Impossible Crossings: Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion and the Aesthetic Foundation of Democracy 170
16. Événements de circonstance: The Classical Tradition in the Age of Revolution 186
17. Detours of Knowledge: Aspects of Novalis’ Aesthetic Epistemology 204
18. Challenging Time(s): Memory, Politics, and the Philosophy of Time in Jean Paul’s Quintus Fixlein 219
19. Xavier de Maistre and Angelology 239
20. Introducing the Songs with Inspiration: William Blake, Lavater, and the Legacy of Felix Hess 251
21. The Contributors 270