German Romanticism and Its InstitutionsPrinceton University Press, 5 mai 1992 - 454 pages Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their modern form during the Romantic period, and how these social structures in turn contributed to major literary works through image, plot, character, and theme. "Ziolkowski cannot fail to impress the reader with a breadth of erudition that reveals fascinating intersections in the life and works of an artist.... He conveys the sense of energy and idealism that fueled Schiller and Goethe, Fichte and Hegel, Hoffmann and Novalis...."--Emily Grosholz, The Hudson Review "[This book] should be put in the hands of every student who is seriously interested in the subject, and I cannot imagine a scholar in the field who will not learn from it and be delighted with it."--Hans Eichner, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "Ziolkowski is among those who go beyond lip-service to the historical and are able to show concretely the ways in which generic and thematic intentions are inextricably enmeshed with local and specific institutional circumstances."--Virgil Nemoianu, MLN |
Table des matières
CHAPTER ONE | 3 |
Institution in Literary Theory | 6 |
Institution in Socialogical Theory | 10 |
Institution in Romantic Thought | 13 |
The Mine Image of the Soul | 18 |
The Belief in the Generation of Stones | 27 |
The Descent into History | 33 |
The Descent into Moral Ordeal | 37 |
The Romantic Obsession with Madness | 202 |
Fiction as a Mode of Psychiatric Perception | 206 |
The University Model of the Mind | 218 |
The Critique of Universities in EighteenthCentury Europe | 220 |
The Situation in Jena | 228 |
Romantic Theories of the University | 237 |
The Jena Mode of Discourse | 252 |
The Image of Halle in Romantic Memoirs | 268 |
The Descent into Sexuality | 49 |
Modern Recurrences of the Romantic Image | 57 |
The Law Text of Society | 64 |
The History of Legal Study in Germany | 69 |
The Codification Controversy | 78 |
The Attraction of Natural Law | 86 |
The Commitment to Traditional Law | 94 |
The Satisfactions of the Prussia Legal Code | 114 |
The Madhouse Asylum of the Spirit | 138 |
Views of Madness in the Late Enlightenment | 144 |
The Impact of Madness on the Arts | 153 |
The Psychologization of Fiction | 156 |
The Finctionalization of Psychiatry | 181 |
The Student as Hero | 278 |
Institutionalization of the Jena Ideal | 286 |
The Museum Temple of Art | 309 |
The Temple as Image in Romantic Aesthetics | 321 |
The Symbiosis of Religion and Art | 329 |
The Artist as Hero | 337 |
The Gallery Dialogue as Genre | 355 |
Institutionalization of the Museal Impulse | 372 |
Conclusion | 378 |
NOTES | 387 |
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