RECOMMENDED SECONDARY READING – SECTION A
The forms of feeling
Kevin Hilliard, ‘Religious and Secular Poetry and Epic’, in German Literature of the Eighteenth Century (Rochester, NY, 2005), ed. by Barbara Becker-Cantarino, pp. 105-30.
Charlie Louth, ‘The Romantic Lyric’, in The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism (Cambridge, 2010), ed. by Nicholas Saul, pp. 67-84.
Bernadette Malinowski, ‘German Romantic Poetry in Theory and Practice: The Schlegel Brothers, Schelling, Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, Brentano and Heine’, in The Literature of German Romanticism, ed. by Dennis F. Mahoney (Rochester, NY, 2004), pp. 147-170.
Judith Ryan, The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry (Cambridge, 2012)
Gabriel Trop, Poetry as a Way of Life (Evanston, IL, 2015)
Goethe: Selected Poems – see notes and introduction by T. J. Reed (London, 1999)
Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age, vols. 1 & 2 (Oxford, 1990 & 2000)
David Constantine, Hölderlin (Oxford, 1988)
Katrin Kohl, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (Stuttgart 2000)
Theatre, society, humanity
F. J. Lamport, Lessing and the Drama (Oxford, 1981)
Id., Theatre, Humanity and Nation. German Classical Drama (Cambridge, 1990)
Id., ‘Lessing, Bourgeois Drama, and the National Theater’, in: German Literature of the Eighteenth Century ed. Barbara Becker-Cantarino (Rochester, N.Y., 2005), pp. 155-84.
Monika Fick, Lessing-Handbuch (Stuttgart, 2004)
Alan Leidner and Helga Madland, eds, Space to Act. The Theater of Lenz (Columbia, S.C., 1993)
H.B. Nisbet, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. His Life, Works, and Thought (Oxford 2013).
Bruce Duncan, Lovers, Parricides, and Highwaymen: Aspects of Sturm und Drang Drama (Rochester, NY, 1999)
Irmgard Wagner, Critical Approaches to Goethe’s Classical Dramas (Columbia, S.C., 1995) pp. 91- 143 Hilda M. Brown, Heinrich von Kleist. The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form (Oxford, 1998)
Society and the subject
Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age, vols. 1 & 2 (Oxford, 1990 & 2000)
Bruce Duncan, Goethe’s Werther and the Critics (Rochester, NY, 2005)
Martin Swales, Goethe. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Cambridge, 1987)
Fritz Breithaupt, Jenseits der Bilder: Goethes Politik der Wahrnehmung (Freiburg, 2000)
Theodore Ziolkowski, German Romanticism and its Institutions (Princeton, 1990)
Anthony Phelan, ‘Prose Fiction of the German Romantics’, in The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism (Cambridge, 2010), ed. by Nicholas Saul, pp. 41-66.
Ulrich Scheck, ‘Tales of Wonder and Terror: Short Prose of the German Romantics’, in The Literature of German Romanticism (Rochester, NY, 2004), ed. by Dennis F. Mahoney, pp. 101-124.
Andrew Cusack, The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature (Rochester, NY, 2008)
Anthony Stephens, Heinrich von Kleist: The Dramas and Stories (Oxford, 1994)
Seán Allan, The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (New York, 2001)
Women and writing
Helen Fronius and Anna Richards (eds.), German Women’s Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Further Directions in Feminist Criticism (London, 2011)
Susanne Kord, Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen. Deutschsprachige Dichterinnen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1992)
Barbara Becker Cantarino, Der lange Weg zur Mündigkeit: Frau und Literatur (1500-1800) (Stuttgart, 1987)
Helen Fronius, Women and Literature in the Goethe Era (1770-1820): Determined Dilettantes (Oxford, 2007)
Gesa Dane, ‘Women Writers and Romanticism’, in The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 133-46.
Katharina von Hammerstein, Katrin Horn (eds.), Sophie Mereau: Verbindungslinien in Zeit und Raum (Heidelberg, 2008)
Charlotte Lee, ‘Sie ist so ferne ihm, und doch so nah: reciprocity and exchange in the lyric poetry of Sophie Mereau’, Publications of the English Goethe Society 84 (2015), 63-75.
Ibid., ‘Home and Homelessness in Works by Novalis, Dorothea Schlegel, and Tieck’, in Modern Language Review 109.4 (2014), 1030-47.
Goethe’s Faust
Berman, Marshall: All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (London: Verso, 1983)
Bishop, Paul: A Companion to Goethe’s Faust: Parts I and II (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2001)
Brown, Jane K.; Lee, Meredith; Saine, Thomas P. (eds): Interpreting Goethe;s Faust Today (Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2004)
Boyle, Nicholas: Goethe. The Poet and the Age. Vols 1 & 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1991 & 2000)
Ibid.: Goethe: Faust. Part One (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Ibid.: ‘The Politics of Faust II: Another looks at the Stratum of 1831’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 52 (1981-82), 4 – 43.
Champlin, Jeffrey: ‘Hegel’s Faust’, Goethe Yearbook 18 (2011), 115-25
Gaier, Ulrich: Goethes Faust-Dichtungen: Ein Kommentar (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1989)
Jaeger, Michael: Fausts Kolonie: Goethes Kritische Phänomenologie der Moderne (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2004)
Mason, Eudo C.: Goethe’s Faust: Its Genesis and Purport (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967)
Schlaffer, Heinz: Faust Zweiter Teil: Die Allegorie des 19. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1981)
Staiger, Emil: Goethe, 3 vols (Zürich: Atlantis, 1952-59)
Crime, Passion and Politics in Schiller’s Dramas
Lesley Sharpe, Schiller. Drama, Thought and Politics (Cambridge, 1991)
Francis Lamport, German Classical Drama. Theatre, Humanity and Nation (Cambridge, 1990)
T. J. Reed, Schiller (Oxford, 1991)
Helmut Koopmann (ed.), Schiller-Handbuch (Stuttgart, 1998)
Matthias Luserke-Jacqui (ed.), Schiller-Handbuch. Leben, Werk, Wirkung (Stuttgart, 2005)
Karl S. Guthke, Schillers Dramen. Idealismus und Skepsis, (2nd edn.: Tübingen, 2005)
John Guthrie, Schiller the Dramatist. A Study of Gesture in the Plays (Rochester, NY, 2009)
Steven D. Martinson ed., A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller (Rochester, NY, 2010).