From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of th...

Foreword

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

These essays are a selection of my research papers and public lectures over a period of nearly forty years. They represent my major interests — Romanticism, and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany — but also excursions into other areas that have caught my imagination. I have always taught across...

1. Goethe

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 1 James Hervey, Meditations and Contemplations (London: J. Goodwin, 1812).Goethe and the NovelOnly superlatives will do for Werther. For Thomas Mann, for instance, it remains ‘ein Meisterwerk’. For this and other modern masters of the theme of death such a reaction might come more from literary...

2. Goethe and Stolberg in Italy

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 2 View of the Bay of Naples. Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg, Reise in Deutschland der Schweiz, Italien und Sicilien in den Jahren 1791 bis 1792, in Gesammelte Werke der Brüder Christian und Friedrich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg, 20 vols (Hamburg: Perthes und Besser, 1820–25), VII, plate facing p....

3. Schiller

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 3 Wallenstein, from Friedrich Schiller’s drama trilogy Wallenstein, steel engraving after a drawing by Friedrich Pecht, c. 1859. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallenstein_aus_Schillers_Wallenstein.jpg, public domain.Critics and commentators are in general agreement that Wal...

4. Laocoon, Dante, Shakespeare, August Wilhelm Schlegel and the overcoming of Tragedy

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 4 Laocoon and his Sons, also known as the Laocoon Group. Marble, copy after an Hellenistic original from ca. 200 BC. Found in the Baths of Trajan, 1506, Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laocoon_Pio-Clementi no_Inv1059-1064-1067.jpg, public domain. A more precise title for this...

5. Adding stones to the edifices

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 8 [Karl Gottlieb Hofmann], Pantheon der Deutschen, 3 parts (Chemnitz: Karl Gottlieb Hofmann, 1794–1800), part 2 (1795), frontispiece and title page.Despite disavowals in its country of origin, there is such a thing as a great German biographical tradition. Why, then, do we not hear more of it,...

6. Kleist’s metamorphoses

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 9 Ernest Julian Stern and Heinz Herald, ‘Penthesilea, Reinhardt und seine Bühne, Bilder von der Arbeit des Deutschen Theaters’, 1919, Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penthesilea_ (Kleist)_-_Amazone.jpg, public domain. Gods of the wingèd shoe! With them the silver hounds, snif...

7. Goethe, the brothers Grimm and academic Freedom

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 10 [Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm], Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 2nd ed. (Berlin: Reimer, 1819–22), vol. 1 (1819), frontispiece and title page. Courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College. My subject is German professors. It may need a word by way of prefatory explanation. For if in the Anglo-S...

8. Fairy stories for very sophisticated children

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 11 Adrian Ludwig Richter, Genoveva (1820–84), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain.No movement spoke more of children, their simplicity and innocence, or the symbolic significance of children and youth, than did the German Romantics. Yet by the same token, never was such childlike simp...

9. Gundolf’s Romanticism

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 12 Friedrich Gundolf, photograph by Jacob Hilsdorf (1911), University Library Heidelberg, Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Gundolf_ (HeidICON_33461).jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Romantik und Kritizismus (Schriftstellertum). Schlegel. Wackenroder. In der ganzen Romantik ist der...

10. Some remarks on the new edition of the works of Wilhelm Müller

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 13 WilhelmMüller, engravingbyJohannFriedrichSchröter (c.1830), Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilhelm_M%C3%BCller_by_Schr%C3%B6ter.jpg, public domain. To coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of Wilhelm Müller’s birth in l794, the first collected edition of his works s...

11. Heine and Shakespeare

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 14. Anna Jameson, Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical. With Fifty Vignette Etchings, second edition (London: Saunders & Otley, 1833), volume 1, p. 1. The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. William Shakespeare is a major figure of bearing, reference and ident...

12. The ‘Schillerfeier’ of 1859 and the ‘Shakespearefest’ of 1864

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 15 Engraving by Carl Jäger, Erinnerung an die Schillerfeier 1859, “erfunden und radirt von C. Jaeger.”; erschienen im Nürnberger Künstlervereins-Album; C. H. Zeh’sche Buch & Kunsthandlung in Nürnberg. Wikimedia, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Karl_J%C3%A4ger_Erinnerung_an_die_Schillerfeier...

13. Under the horse’s tail

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 16 Theaterplatz in Dresden. Photo by author, CC BY-SA 4.0.My real subject in this chapter is ‘lieux de mémoire’, ‘Erinnerungsorte’, ‘loci memoriae’ or ‘places of memory’. I shall be looking at three examples in a German context and will be examining them as they affect the national memory and i...

14. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 24 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, c. 1760. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Gottlieb_Klopstock-01.jpg, public domain.Schön ist, Mutter Natur, deiner Erfindung PrachtAuf die Fluren verstreut, schöner ein froh Gesicht,Das den großen GedankenDeiner Schöpfung noch Einmal...

15. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 25 Johann Joseph Sprick, Portrait of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, 1838. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Droste-H%C3%BClshoff_2.jpg, public domain. How typical are German women writers of the age in which they lived? There is Bettina von Arnim, who did not find her way to a pu...

16. Rilke: Duino elegy Ten

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 26 Leonid Pasternak, Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, date unknown. Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonid_Pasternak_-_Portrait_painting_of_Rainer_Maria_Rilke.jpg, public domain.It is a natural reaction to see in Elegy Ten a kind of summation of the ideas and images of...

17. Julius hare’s German books in trinity College library, Cambridge

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 27 Bust of Julius Hare by Thomas Woolner (1861). The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge. Photo by James Kirwan. Courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College. I begin this chapter with a personal reminiscence. In the spring of 1973, Trinity College, Cambridge, anxious to find a le...

Bibliography

Bibliographies

Roger Paulin (2021)

Bibliographies

Primary Literature Arnim, Ludwig Achim von, Achim von Arnim und die ihm nahe standen, ed. by Reinhold Steig and Herman Grimm, 3 vols (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1894–1913). – ––Arnim-Bibliographie, ed. by Otto Mallon (Berlin: Späth, 1925, repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1965). Arnold, Matthew, ‘Superior or Universit...

List of illustrations

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Fig. 1 James Hervey, Meditations and Contemplations (London: J. Goodwin, 1812). x Fig. 2 View of the Bay of Naples. Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg, Reise in Deutschland der Schweiz, Italien und Sicilien in den Jahren 1791 bis 1792, in Gesammelte Werke der Brüder Christian und Friedrich Leopold Grafen...

Index

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Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

academic freedom 123–128, 132–133, 135–138, 141, 148Achilles 90–91, 99–101, 103, 105–106, 108–111, 117–118Acton, Lord 363Adams, H. M. 348Aeschylus 77, 175, 228Akenside, Mark 61Albert, King of Saxony 249Albert, Prince Consort 249Alewyn, Richard 175Alexander the Great 80Alexis, Willibald 203, 362Allen...

About the Team

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin (2021)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Alessandra Tosi was the managing editor for this book.Adèle Kreager performed the copy-editing, proofreading and indexing. Andrew Corbett designed the cover.Luca Baffa typeset the book in InDesign and produced the paperback and hardback editions. The text font is Tex Gyre Pagella; the heading font i...

Introduction

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin (2020)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

The story of Mary Queen of Scots as a dramatic subject had been on Schiller’s mind since as early as 1783. It featured again on the so-called ‘Big List of Dramas’ that he started around 1797, as number four (Wallenstein is number two). This marks Schiller’s return to dramatic production after years...

Introduction

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Roger Paulin et al. (2019)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Friedrich Schiller wrote Love and Intrigue (Kabale und Liebe) in 1782 after having fled from his native Württemberg, and completed it in early 1784. It was ready for the first stage performance in Mannheim on 13 April 1784.Duke Karl August, the ruler of Württemberg, had not appreciated Schiller’s ta...