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Romantic Scholar and Critic: A Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel
Author: Roger Paulin
Forthcoming in 2013.
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845) is the most important critic, translator and literary historian of German Romanticism. The breadth of his interests takes in classical studies, German literature, Romance philology (especially Italian and Spanish) and, latterly, Sanskrit. He is especially known for the translation of Shakespeare which has remained standard until this day, and for his famous Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, given in Vienna in 1808.
This biography will be the first in any language to cover all aspects of Schlegel’s life and career, from his early studies in Göttingen, to his professorship in Jena, and then to his thirteen-year long association with the influential novelist and Romantic luminary Madame de Stäel. Drawing on many hitherto unknown archival sources, Roger Paulin’s biography places Schlegel’s varied intellectual and personal developments in their historical context. In doing so, it reveals a new understanding of the life, mind and surrounding culture of one of Romanticism’s least understood figures.
ISBN Paperback: 978-1-909254-95-4
ISBN Hardback: 978-1-909254-96-1
ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-909254-97-8
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-909254-98-5
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-909254-99-2
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845) is the most important critic, translator and literary historian of German Romanticism. The breadth of his interests takes in classical studies, German literature, Romance philology (especially Italian and Spanish) and, latterly, Sanskrit. He is especially known for the translation of Shakespeare which has remained standard until this day, and for his famous Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, given in Vienna in 1808.
This biography will be the first in any language to cover all aspects of Schlegel’s life and career, from his early studies in Göttingen, to his professorship in Jena, and then to his thirteen-year long association with the influential novelist and Romantic luminary Madame de Stäel. Drawing on many hitherto unknown archival sources, Roger Paulin’s biography places Schlegel’s varied intellectual and personal developments in their historical context. In doing so, it reveals a new understanding of the life, mind and surrounding culture of one of Romanticism’s least understood figures.
ISBN Paperback: 978-1-909254-95-4
ISBN Hardback: 978-1-909254-96-1
ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-909254-97-8
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-909254-98-5
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-909254-99-2
Roger Paulin is Schröder
Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. His major interest is
literary history from 1700-1900. His chief monograph publications have
been on Ludwig Tieck (1985), on the German Novelle (1985), and on the
reception of Shakespeare in Germany (2003). He has published numerous
articles on Goethe, Kleist, Romanticism, and on German poetry from
Klopstock to Rilke. In 2002 he was awarded a Humboldt Prize and in 2011
the Bundesverdienstkreuz.