The life of August Wilhelm Schlegel : cosmopolitan of art and poetry / Roger Paulin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulin, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 1767-1845.

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von.

Authors, German--19th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Romanticism--Germany.

Romanticism.

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (662 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Open Book Publishers

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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 interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man's rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel's activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent. "

Contents:

1. Family, Childhood and Youth (1767-1794)

2. Jena and Berlin (1795-1804)

3. The Years with Madame de Staël (1804-1817)

4. Bonn and India (1818-1845)

5.The Past Returns.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2016).

ISBN:

9781909254985

1909254983

9782821881709

2821881703

9781909254978

1909254975

OCLC:

1076647498

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access