CRITICISM

Behler, Ernst. “The Reception of Calderón among the German Romantics.” Studies in Romanticism 67, no. 4 (winter 1981): 437-60.

Includes discussion of Schlegel's translations of three plays by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, as well as his critical appraisal of the Spanish dramatist's work.

———. “The Impact of Classical Antiquity on the Formation of the Romantic Literary Theory of the Schlegel Brothers.” In Classical Models in Literature, edited by Zoran Konstantinovic, pp. 139-43. Innsbruck: Verlag des Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1981.

Centers on the groundbreaking formulation of aesthetic theory in terms of an opposition between Classicism and Romanticism undertaken by August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

———. “‘The Theory of Art is its own History’: Herder and the Schlegel Brothers.” In Herder Today: Contributions from the International Herder Conference Nov. 5-8, 1987, edited by Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, pp. 246-67. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1990.

Records the Schlegel brothers' admiration for Johann Gottfried von Herder as the epitome of the Romantic thinker and discusses their synthesis of his historical theories.

———. “Cross-Roads in Literary Theory and Criticism: Madame de Staël and August Wilhelm Schlegel.” In Carrefour de Cultures: Mélanges offerts à Jacqueline Leiner, edited by Régis Antoine, pp. 129-41. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1993.

Considers the lengthy personal and professional relationship between Schlegel and de Staël as it reflects a cultural exchange between Germany and France on the subject of literary aesthetics.

Boening, John, ed. “August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845).” In The Reception of Classical German Literature in England, 1760-1860: A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals, Volume 6, edited by John Boening, pp. 206-307. New York: Garland Publishing, 1977.

Collects sixteen reviews of Schlegel's publications from the first half of the nineteenth century, including several devoted to his Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature.

Craig, Charlotte M. “A. W. Schlegel's Rendering of Shakespearian Wordplays.” Michigan Germanic Studies 15, no. 2 (fall 1989): 215-25.

Concentrates on Schlegel's efforts to evoke the spirit of Shakespeare's punning and wordplay in his German translations of Shakespearean drama.

Fiedler, H. G., ed. Introduction to A. W. Schlegel's Lectures on German Literature from Gottsched to Goethe, edited by H. G. Fiedler, pp. 5-12. London: Basil Blackwell, 1944.

Offers a summary of Schlegel's career as background to the first publication of his 1833 Bonn lectures recorded from notes taken by the Englishman George Toynbee.

Haggblade, Elizabeth. “Contributions to the Beginnings of Language Typology.” Historiographia Linguistica 10, nos. 1-2 (1983): 13-24.

Compares language classification systems developed by the Schlegel brothers, Adam Smith, and Gabriel Girard.

Helmholtz, Anna Augusta. The Indebtedness of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1907, 370 p.

Detailed examination of Coleridge's alleged appropriation of key concepts and phrases from Schlegel's criticism.

Hernández-Araico, Susana. “The Schlegels, Shelley and Calderón.” Neophilologus 71, no. 4 (October 1987): 481-88.

Explores Percy Shelley's literary responses to Calderón's dramatization of religion as mediated by the aesthetic theories of August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel.

Johnson, David. “Violence and Philosophy: Nathaniel Merriman, A. W. Schlegel and Jack Cade.” In Philosophical Shakespeares, edited by John J. Joughin, pp. 68-85. London: Routledge, 2000.

Argues that traces of Schlegel's valorization of Shakespeare and of the historical ideas presented in his plays still resonate in contemporary criticism of Shakespearean drama.

Kurth-Voight, Lieselotte E., and William H. McClain. “Three Unpublished August Wilhelm Schlegel Letters in the Kurrelmeyer Collection.” MLN 101, no. 3 (April 1986): 592-608.

Reprints three letters by Schlegel addressed to Heinrich Fröhlich, publisher of the Athenaeum, introducing this correspondence as significant historical documentation regarding the development of this journal.

Mayer, Paola. “Melusine: The Romantic Appropriation of a Medieval Tale.” Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 52, no. 2 (2002): 289-302.

Probes the Romantic reevaluation of the medieval myth of Melusine, while mentioning Schlegel's innovative characterization of this figure as an elemental force of nature.

Orsini, G. N. G. “Coleridge and Schlegel Reconsidered.” Comparative Literature 16, no. 2 (spring 1964): 97-118.

Addresses the controversy surrounding Coleridge's suspected plagiarism of Schlegel's ideas, tracing the English writer's remarks on organic form back to Schlegel.

Peer, Larry H. “Schlegel, Christianity, and History: Manzoni's Theory of the Novel.” Comparative Literature Studies 9, no. 3 (September 1972): 266-82.

Asserts Schlegel's influence on Alessandro Manzoni's Romantic theory of the novel.

Reiff, Paul. “Views of Tragedy among the Early German Romanticists.” Modern Language Notes 19, no. 8 (1904): 230-32.

Summarizes Schlegel's ideas on the distinction between ancient and modern tragedy, regarding his view of the antique dramatists as largely conventional and of the moderns as based upon his appreciation of Shakespeare and the Spanish writers Cervantes and Calderón.

Sauer, Thomas G. A. W. Schlegel's Shakespearean Criticism in England, 1811-1846, Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1981, 219 p.

Provides a detailed and comprehensive study of Schlegel's influence on Shakespearean criticism that was published in England during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Schilling, Hanna-Beate. “The Role of the Brothers Schlegel in American Literary Criticism as Found in Selected Periodicals, 1812-1833: A Critical Bibliography.” American Literature 43, no. 4 (January 1972): 563-79.

Reviews references to the Schlegels in American literary periodicals published between 1812 and 1833, concluding that the brothers' ostensible influence on American critics was only generalized and “cannot be documented.”

Additional coverage of Schlegel's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 94; Literature Resource Center; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 15; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Eds. 2, 3.