Professor Behler provides a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed in the German Romantic period.

Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.

Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, la

Often portrayed as a movement of poets lost in swells of passion, early German Romanticism has been generally overlooked by scholars in favor of the great syste

During the Romantic era, many in Germany believed music to be the highest art form, representing the quintessence of Romanticism and able to express what could