This collection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewing wholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construction. Wholenes

Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors

Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt’s approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concep