From Goethe to Novalis : Studies in Classicism and Romanticism: 'Festschrift' for Dennis F. Mahoney in Celebration of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

This __Festschrift__ in honor of Dennis F. Mahoney’s sixty-fifth birthday is somewhat different from the standard __Festschrift__: rather than present essays from various authors, this Festschrift collects twenty-one of Mahoney’s most important English-language publications on German Classicism and Romanticism published over the past thirty years. Mahoney is the author and editor of many articles and books in German and English, among them __Die Poetisierung der Natur bei Novalis__ (1980), __Der Roman der Goethezeit__ (1988), __The Eighteenth Century and Uses of the Past__ (1992), __The Critical Fortunes of a Romantic Novel: Novalis’s «Heinrich von Ofterdingen»__ (1994), __The End of Enlightenment__ (2000), __Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis)__ (2001), and __Literature of German Romanticism__ (2004). Mahoney has taught German language, culture, literature, and film at the University of Vermont for thirty-five years, and has received national and international recognition. On campus he has been a champion of international education, advising students about studying abroad, setting up an exchange program with the University of Augsburg, and inviting students and colleagues from Germany to Vermont. He has received an Excellence in Teaching Award, an Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education, and he was the first American to be named president of the International Novalis Society. The title of this __Festschrift__ captures Mahoney’s life-long occupation with this rich period of German cultural, intellectual, and literary life. The essays display his erudition and expertise on such subjects as the multifaceted Age of Goethe, including the continuing discussion of the nature of the __Bildungsroman__ and the influence of the French Revolution. The essays deal primarily with Goethe, Schiller, and Novalis, but Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Georg Forster, Caroline von Wolzogen, Jean Paul, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Achim von Amim, and others are discussed as well. These individual essays are representative of Mahoney’s accomplishments as a literary scholar – and a remarkable professor, colleague, and friend. Cover Contents Tabula Gratulatoria Preface Classicism Chapter 1. Goethe Seen Anew: Egon Günther’s Film Lotte in Weimar II Notes Chapter 2. The Thematic Significance of Astrology in Schiller’s Wallenstein Notes Chapter 3. The French Revolution as Volcano: Goethe and Georg Forster Notes Chapter 4. Primeval Formation: Teaching Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre with the Help of Goethe’s Urworte. Orphisch Notes Chapter 5. Goethe’s Autobiographical Writings Notes Chapter 6. Schiller’s Der Geisterseher: A Princely Experiment or, the Creation of a “Spiritualist” Notes Chapter 7. On the Periphery of Weimar Classicism: Passion, Patriarchy and Political Machinations in Caroline von Wolzogen’s Agnes von Lilien (1797) and Barbara Honigmann’s Eine Liebe aus nichts (1991) Notes Chapter 8. Maria Stuart Adaptations in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: From “Classical” Parodies to Contemporary Politics Notes Transition Chapter 9. The French Revolution and the Bildungsroman Notes Chapter 10. “Painting the Red Flower Blue”: Developments in Research on the Novels of the Age of Goethe since 1968 Notes Works Cited Chapter 11. The Apprenticeship of the Reader: The Bildungsroman of the “Age of Goethe” Notes Chapter 12. The Channeling of a Literary Revolution: Goethe, Schiller, and the Genesis of German Romanticism Notes Romanticism Chapter 13. The Myth of Death and Resurrection in Heinrich von Ofterdingen I II III Notes Chapter 14. Double into Doppelgänger: The Genesis of the Doppelgänger-Motif in the Novels of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann Notes Chapter 15. “Stages of Enlightenment”: Lessing’s Nathan der Weise and Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen Notes Works Cited Chapter 16. A “Schützenkönig” for Kuhschnappel: Social Reality and Wish Projection in Jean Paul’s Siebenkäs Diskussion Notes Chapter 17. Human History as Natural History in Die Lehrlinge Zu Sais and Heinrich von Ofterdingen Notes Chapter 18. “Was Nicht Ist, Kann Noch Werden” Notes Chapter 19. Old, New, and (Un)Known Worlds: History and Fiction in Achim von Arnim’s Die Kronenwächter and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World Notes Works Cited Chapter 20. Romanticizing the Everyday: Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower Notes Chapter 21. Double Trouble: Uncanny Secrets in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s and Otto Ludwig’s Das Fräulein von Scuderi Notes Bibliography List of Publications Books Articles and Chapters in Books Electronic Publications Encyclopedia Articles Introduction to Volumes Translations Book Reviews "Achim von Arnim, Bildungsroman, Classicism, German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Dennis F. Mahoney, Novalis, novel, Jean Paul, Romanticism, Friedrich Schiller"-- Provided by publisher