The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521848911 ISBN 13: 9780521848916

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description

This Companion, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. All German quotations are translated to make this volume fully accessible to a wide audience interested in how Romanticism evolved across Europe.

About the Author

Nicholas Saul is Professor of German at the University of Durham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521848911
• ISBN 13: 9780521848916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 362
• Editor: Saul Nicholas