Dec 22, 2009
The stereotypical Romantic artist is alienated from society, a loner who shuns the company of others and tastes most fully in private his feelings and sorrows. In German Romanticism and Its Institutions, Theodore Ziolkowski offers a reading of many of the most central texts of the movement in an attempt to revise this stereotype. He insists that Romantic writers and artists in Germany (in contrast to those of other nations) were deeply involved in the institutions of their society, and that this involvement can be seen in their works.
The institutions he considers are five...
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