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The life of August Wilhelm Schlegel : cosmopolitan of art and poetry /
"This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse inte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.