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Acknowledgements
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xi
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List of Abbreviations
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xiii
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Introduction
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1
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1.
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Family, Childhood and Youth (1767-1794)
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11
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Antecedents
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11
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‘From One House Four Such Marvellous Minds’
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13
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Johann Adolf Schlegel
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17
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Growing Up in Hanover
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20
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Siblings
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23
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Childhood and Schooling
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27
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Göttingen
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30
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Gottfried August Bürger: ‘Young Eagle’
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37
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The First Translations
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46
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Johann Dominik Fiorillo
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48
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Caroline Michaelis-Böhmer
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50
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Summer 1791-Summer 1795: Amsterdam, Mainz, Leipzig
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52
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Caroline’s Tribulations
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54
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Schlegel in Amsterdam
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59
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‘Du, Caroline und ich’: Friedrich Schlegel
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62
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2.
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Jena and Berlin (1795-1804)
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65
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2.1
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Jena
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70
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Die Horen
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74
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Goethe and Schiller on the Attack: The Xenien
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79
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Schlegel’s Reviews: Language, Metrics
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83
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Dante
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88
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The Shakespeare Translation
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91
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The Wilhelm Meister Essay
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99
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The Jena Group
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109
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The Genesis of the Athenaeum
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115
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The Group Meets in Dresden
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121
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Professor in Jena
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125
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The Fichte Affair
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129
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The Scandal of Lucinde
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132
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Foregathering in Jena
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135
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The First Strains
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139
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The Death of Auguste Böhmer
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143
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Elegies for the Dead and the Living
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146
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Schlegel’s Contributions to the Athenaeum
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154
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The Essays on Art
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159
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Schlegel’s Lectures in Jena
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166
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2.2
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Berlin (1801-1804)
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169
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The End of Jena: Controversies and Polemics
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169
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The Essay on Bürger
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172
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Sophie Tieck-Bernhardi
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182
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The Ion Fiasco
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186
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Polemics, Caricatures and Lampoons
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189
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Friedrich Schlegel’s Europa
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192
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Calderón
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198
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2.3
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The Berlin Lectures
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202
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3.
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The Years with Madame de Staël (1804-1817)
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221
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Holding Things Together
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221
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Germaine de Staël-Holstein
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225
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Madame de Staël and Germany
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230
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The Meeting of Staël and Schlegel
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234
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Schlegel in Coppet
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240
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In Italy with Madame de Staël 1804-1805
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249
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3.1
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With Madame de Staël in Coppet and Acosta 1805-1807
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260
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The Writer in Diaspora
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260
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Considérations sur la civilisation en général
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267
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On some Tragic Roles of Madame de Staël
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269
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Corinne, ou l’Italie
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273
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Swiss Journeyings with Albert de Staël
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279
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Comparaison entre la Phèdre de Racine et celle d’Euripide (1807)
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281
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3.2
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Vienna
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290
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Travelling to Vienna with Madame de Staël
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293
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Friedrich Schlegel: Rome and India
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296
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The Vienna Lectures
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299
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Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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302
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Further Travels
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314
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Back to Coppet
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318
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De l’Allemagne
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325
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Holed up in Berne
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330
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The Dash to Vienna
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334
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De l’Allemagne: The Book Itself
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337
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The Last Days in Coppet
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341
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3.3
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The Flight: Caught Up in History
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345
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Through Germany, Austria and Russia, to Sweden
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349
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In the Service of Bernadotte: The Political Pamphleteer
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356
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Political and Military Developments 1813-1814
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364
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England and France 1814
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376
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The Return to Scholarship
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380
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Italy, Coppet, Paris: The Death of Madame de Staël
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383
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3.4
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Scholarly Matters
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393
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Learned Reviews
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397
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Medieval Studies
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407
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The Nibelungenlied
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409
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4.
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Bonn and India (1818-1845)
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415
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4.1
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Bonn
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415
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‘Chevalier de plusieurs ordres’
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415
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Auguste and Albertine
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417
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The European Celebrity
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421
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Friedrich Schlegel in Frankfurt
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430
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Marriage
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435
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The University of Bonn
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442
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The Bonn Professor
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448
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The Carlsbad Decrees
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453
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The Professor’s Day
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458
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Teacher and Taught
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463
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The Content of the Lectures
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471
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4.2
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India
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478
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The Indische Bibliothek
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490
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Paris and London 1820-1823
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497
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Educating the Young
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504
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Paris and London Again
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509
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The Sanskrit Editions
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515
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5.
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The Past Returns
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521
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Friedrich Schlegel
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522
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Ludwig Tieck
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526
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Goethe
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529
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The 1827 Art Lectures in Berlin
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536
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Heinrich Heine
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540
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5.1
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The Last Years 1834-1845
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546
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The Works of Frederick the Great
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557
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Illness and Death
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560
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Epilogue
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563
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Short Biographies
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567
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Select Bibliography
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603
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List of Illustrations
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617
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Index
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625
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