German Romanticism and Its Institutions

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Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers...

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Main Author: Ziolkowski, Theodore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1990.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Romanticism > Germany.
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Germany.
German literature > Social aspects.
Civilization
German literature
German literature > Social aspects
Intellectual life
Literature and society
Romanticism
Germany > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Germany > Civilization > History.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Allemagne > Civilisation > Histoire.
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
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Summary:Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their modern form during the Romantic period, and how these social structures in turn contributed to major literary works through image, plot, character, and theme. "Ziolkowski cannot fail to impress the reader with a breadth of erudition that reveals fascinating intersections in the life and works of an artist.... He conveys the sense of energy and idealism that fueled Schiller and Goethe, Fichte and Hegel, Hoffmann and Novalis...."--Emily Grosholz, The Hudson Review "[This book] should be put in the hands of every student who is seriously interested in the subject, and I cannot imagine a scholar in the field who will not learn from it and be delighted with it."--Hans Eichner, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "Ziolkowski is among those who go beyond lip-service to the historical and are able to show concretely the ways in which generic and thematic intentions are inextricably enmeshed with local and specific institutional circumstances."--Virgil Nemoianu, MLN
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 442 pages)
ISBN:9780691225760
0691225761

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