Early German Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense of spiritual crisis
that characterised the late eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how the Romantics …

A veritable tidal shift in Herder scholarship has taken place over the las quarter century,
primarily but not exclusively in German. 1 This review essay seeks to evoke the richness and …

Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize
themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the …

1. For an introduction to the basic ideology as it has evolved over the past century and a half,
begin with Alex Johnston, Cowbo Page 1 337 INTRODUCTION 1. For an introduction to the …

For instance, there were passions, appetites, sensibilities, sentiments, affections, to name a
few of the English terms. Appetites and passions were often grouped together, and were …

This article posits that Werther substantially revises the epistolary form made standard by the
last quarter of the eighteenth century. Acts of miscommunication dominate the novel: letters …

Friedrich Schiller's psychological theory of play, his hypothesis about human nature, is
embedded in the Aesthetic Letters. Its trans-historical value owes much to the committed …

Goethe's best-selling 1774 Sorrows of Young Werther swept the world with Werther-mania
driven by its sad love story, intense script of modern subjectivity, and, most significantly for …

Kingdoms Becoming emphasizes the profound impact that biblical prophecy, the slave
trade, and the American Revolution had on Romanticism, Black nationalism, and horizontal …

Ecocriticism emphasizes how our bodily and ecological boundaries are just as porous, inter-
penetrable, and open as are our cultural and linguistic realms. As individual bodies and …