The life of August Wilhelm Schlegel : cosmopolitan of art and poetry /: cosmopolitan of art and poetry. (©2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: August Wilhelm Schlegel : cosmopolitan of art and poetry
• Further Information: Note: Roger Paulin.
• Other Names: Paulin, Roger; Open Book Publishers.
• Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Family, Childhood and Youth (1767-1794). Antecedents ; 'From One House Four Such Marvellous Minds' ; Johann Adolf Schlegel ; Growing Up in Hanover ; Siblings ; Childhood and Schooling ; Göttingen ; Gottfried August Bürger: 'Young Eagle' ; The First Translations ; Johann Dominik Fiorillo ; Caroline Michaelis-Böhmer ; Summer 1791-Summer 1795: Amsterdam, Mainz, Leipzig ; Caroline's Tribulations ; Schlegel in Amsterdam ; 'Du, Caroline und ich': Friedrich Schlegel -- 2. Jena and Berlin (1795-1804). 2.1. Jena. Die Horen ; Goethe and Schiller on the Attack: The Xenien ; Schlegel's Reviews: Language, Metrics ; Dante ; The Shakespeare Translation ; The Wilhelm Meister Essay ; The Jena Group ; The Genesis of the Athenaeum ; The Group Meets in Dresden ; Professor in Jena ; The Fichte Affair ; The Scandal of Lucinde ; Foregathering in Jena ; The First Strains ; The Death of Auguste Böhmer ; Elegies for the Dead and the Living ; Schlegel's Contributions to the Athenaeum ; The Essays on Art ; Schlegel's Lectures in Jena -- 2.2. Berlin (1801-1804). The End of Jena: Controversies and Polemics ; The Essay on Bürger ; Sophie Tieck-Bernhardi ; The Ion Fiasco ; Polemics, Caricatures and Lampoons ; Friedrich Schlegel's Europa ; Calderón -- 2.3. The Berlin Lectures -- 3. The Years with Madame de Staël (1804-1817). Holding Things Together ; Germaine de Staël-Holstein ; Madame de Staël and Germany -- The Meeting of Staël and Schlegel ; Schlegel in Coppet ; In Italy with Madame de Staël 1804-1805 -- 3.1. With Madame de Staël in Coppet and Acosta 1805-1807. The Writer in Diaspora ; Considérations sur la civilisation en général ; On some Tragic Roles of Madame de Staël ; Corinne, ou l'Italie ; Swiss Journeyings with Albert de Staël ; Comparaison entre la Phèdre de Racine et celle d'Euripide (1807) -- 3.2. Vienna -- Travelling to Vienna with Madame de Staël ; Friedrich Schlegel: Rome and India ; The Vienna Lectures ; Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature ; Further Travels ; Back to Coppet ; De l'Allemagne ; Holed up in Berne ; The Dash to Vienna ; De l'Allemagne: The Book Itself ; The Last Days in Coppet -- 3.3. The Flight: Caught Up in History ;Through Germany, Austria and Russia, to Sweden ; In the Service of Bernadotte: The Political Pamphleteer Political and Military Developments 1813-1814. England and France. The Return to Scholarship ; Italy, Coppet, Paris: The Death of Madame de Staël -- 3.4. Scholarly Matters ; Learned Reviews ; Medieval Studies ; The Nibelungenlied -- 4. Bonn and India (1818-1845). 4.1. Bonn. 'Chevalier de plusieurs ordres' ; Auguste and Albertine ; The European Celebrity ; Friedrich Schlegel in Frankfurt ; Marriage ; The University of Bonn ; The Bonn Professor ; The Carlsbad Decrees ; The Professor's Day ; Teacher and Taught ; The Content of the Lectures -- 4.2. India. The Indische Bibliothek -- Paris and London 1820-1823. Educating the Young ; Paris and London Again ; The Sanskrit Editions -- 5. The Past Returns ; Friedrich Schlegel ; Ludwig Tieck ; Goethe ; The 1827 Art Lectures in Berlin ; Heinrich Heine -- 5.1. The Last Years 1834-1845 -- The Works of Frederick the Great -- Illness and Death -- Epilogue -- Short Biographies -- Select Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 664 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 838/.609; Romanticism -- Germany; German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; German literature; Romanticism; Germany; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781909254978; 1909254975
• Related ISBNs: 9781909254961; 9781909254954; 1909254975; 9781909254985; 1909254983; 9781909254992; 1909254991
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-624) and index.
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