Description
Book SynopsisThis
Festschrift in honor of Dennis F. Mahoney's sixty-fifth birthday is somewhat different from the standard
Festschrift: rather than present essays from various authors, this Festschrift collects twenty-one of Mahoney's most important English-language publications on German Classicism and Romanticism published over the past thirty years. Mahoney is the author and editor of many articles and books in German and English, among them
Die Poetisierung der Natur bei Novalis (1980),
Der Roman der Goethezeit (1988),
The Eighteenth Century and Uses of the Past (1992),
The Critical Fortunes of a Romantic Novel: Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1994),
The End of Enlightenment (2000),
Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (2001), and
Literature of German Romanticism (2004).
Mahoney has taught German language, culture, literature, and film at the University of Vermont for thirty-five years, and has received national and internati
Table of ContentsContents: Goethe Seen Anew: Egon Günther’s Film
Lotte in Weimar – The Thematic Significance of Astrology in Schiller’s
Wallenstein – The French Revolution as Volcano: Goethe and Georg Forster – Primeval Formation: Teaching
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre with the Help of Goethe’s
Urworte. Orphisch – Goethe’s Autobiographical Writings – Schiller’s
Der Geisterseher: A Princely Experiment or, the Creation of a »«piritualist» – On the Periphery of Weimar Classicism: Passion, Patriarchy and Political Machinations in Caroline von Wolzogen’s
Agnes von Lilien (1797) and Barbara Honigmann’s
Eine Liebe aus nichts (1991) –
Maria Stuart Adaptations in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: From «Classica» Parodies to Contemporary Politics – The French Revolution and the
Bildungsroman – «Painting the Red Flower Blue»: Developments in Research on the Novels of the Age of Goethe since 1968 – The Apprenticeship of the Reader: The
Bildungsroman of the «Age of Goethe» – The Channeling of a Literary Revolution: Goethe, Schiller, and the Genesis of German Romanticism – The Myth of Death and Resurrection in
Heinrich von Ofterdingen – Double into
Doppelgänger: The Genesis of the
Doppelgänger-Motif in the Novels of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann – «Stages of Enlightenment»: Lessing’s
Nathan der Weise and Novalis’s
Heinrich von Ofterdingen – A «Schützenkönig» for Kuhschnappel: Social Reality and Wish Projection in Jean Paul’s
Siebenkäs – Human History as Natural History in Die
Lehrlinge zu Sais and
Heinrich von Ofterdingen – «Was nicht ist, kann noch werden»: Proverbs and German Romanticism – Old, New, and (Un)Known Worlds: History and Fiction in Achim von Arnim’s
Die Kronenwächter and Edward P. Jones’s
The Known World – Romanticizing the Everyday: Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower – Double Trouble: Uncanny Secrets in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s and Otto Ludwig’s
Das Fräulein von Scuderi.
