Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prelude in the Academy 1
4. I. Goethe’s Farbenlehre: The Newtonian Controversy 9
5. II. Goethe’s Entoptische Farben: The Problem of Polarity 54
6. III. Goethe’s Homunculus: The Mediation of Light 80
7. IV. Novalis: Transcendental Physics and the Sidereal Man 102
8. V. Achim von Arnim: The Galvanic Eye 139
9. VI. Wordsworth: An Auxiliar Light 176
10. VIII. Coleridge and Jean Paul: The Look of Limbo 210
11. VIII. Coleridge and Schlegel: The Glittering Eye 235
12. IX. Shelley: The “Traces” of Faust 255
13. Bibliography 275
14. Index 301
15. 309-310 309