Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Textual Note xxi
6. Introduction: Benjamin’s Baroque: A Lost Object? 1
7. 1. Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates 23
8. 2. The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama 77
9. 3. Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque 138
10. Conclusion: Baroque Legacies: National Socialism’s Benjamin 185
11. Bibliography 205
12. Index 225