Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Reorientations around Goethe
- Reorientations around Goethe II
- Special Section on Goethe's Narrative Events edited by Fritz Breithaupt
- Book Reviews
- Walter Hinderer and Alexander Rosenbaum, eds. Herzog Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: Das Tagebuch der Reise durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826. Stiftung für Romantikforschung LX. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. 912 pp.
- Carl Wilhelm Frölich. On Man and His Circumstances. Translated by Edward T. Larkin. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. 244 pp.
- Lutherbibliothek 2017: Dokumentation von literarischen Lutherbildern zwischen 1517 und 2017 in fünf Reihen. Dresden: Neisse, 2017–ongoing.
- Heiner Boehncke, Hans Sarkowicz, and Joachim Seng. Monsieur Göthé: Goethes unbekannter Großvater. Berlin: Die Andere Bibliothek, 2017. 478 pp.
- Eva Geulen. Aus dem Leben der Form: Goethes Morphologie und die Nager. Berlin: August, 2016. 160 pp.
- Karl S. Guthke. Goethes Reise nach Spanisch-Amerika: Weltbewohnen in Weimar. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016. 79 pp.
- Joseph D. O'Neil. Figures of Natality: Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. 312 pp.
- Martin Jörg Schäfer. Das Theater der Erziehung: Goethes “pädagogische Provinz” und die Vorgeschichten der Theatralisierung von Bildung. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. 308 pp.
- David E. Wellbery. Goethes Faust I: Reflexion der tragischen Form. Munich: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 2016. 102 pp.
- Beate Allert, ed. Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Science. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2016. 459 pp.
- Vance Byrd. A Pedagogy of Observation: Nineteenth-Century Panoramas, German Literature, and Reading Culture. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2017, 218 pp., 18 illustrations, 8 color plates.
- Stefani Engelstein. Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 373 pp.
- Julia Freytag, Inge Stephan, and Hans-Gerd Winter, eds. J. M. R. Lenz-Handbuch. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 759 pp.
- Claudia Lillge, Thorsten Unger, and Björn Weyand, eds. Arbeit und Müßiggang in der Romantik. Paderborn: Fink, 2017. 494 pp.
- Asko Nivala. The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History. New York: Routledge, 2017. viii + 273 pp.
- Larry H. Peer and Christopher R. Clason, eds. Romantic Rapports: New Essays on Romanticism across the Disciplines. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2017. ix + 180 pp.
- Heather I. Sullivan and Caroline Schaumann, eds. German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 348 pp.
- Chad Wellmon. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 353 pp.
Claudia Lillge, Thorsten Unger, and Björn Weyand, eds. Arbeit und Müßiggang in der Romantik. Paderborn: Fink, 2017. 494 pp.
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Reorientations around Goethe
- Reorientations around Goethe II
- Special Section on Goethe's Narrative Events edited by Fritz Breithaupt
- Book Reviews
- Walter Hinderer and Alexander Rosenbaum, eds. Herzog Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: Das Tagebuch der Reise durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826. Stiftung für Romantikforschung LX. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. 912 pp.
- Carl Wilhelm Frölich. On Man and His Circumstances. Translated by Edward T. Larkin. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. 244 pp.
- Lutherbibliothek 2017: Dokumentation von literarischen Lutherbildern zwischen 1517 und 2017 in fünf Reihen. Dresden: Neisse, 2017–ongoing.
- Heiner Boehncke, Hans Sarkowicz, and Joachim Seng. Monsieur Göthé: Goethes unbekannter Großvater. Berlin: Die Andere Bibliothek, 2017. 478 pp.
- Eva Geulen. Aus dem Leben der Form: Goethes Morphologie und die Nager. Berlin: August, 2016. 160 pp.
- Karl S. Guthke. Goethes Reise nach Spanisch-Amerika: Weltbewohnen in Weimar. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016. 79 pp.
- Joseph D. O'Neil. Figures of Natality: Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. 312 pp.
- Martin Jörg Schäfer. Das Theater der Erziehung: Goethes “pädagogische Provinz” und die Vorgeschichten der Theatralisierung von Bildung. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. 308 pp.
- David E. Wellbery. Goethes Faust I: Reflexion der tragischen Form. Munich: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 2016. 102 pp.
- Beate Allert, ed. Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Science. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2016. 459 pp.
- Vance Byrd. A Pedagogy of Observation: Nineteenth-Century Panoramas, German Literature, and Reading Culture. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2017, 218 pp., 18 illustrations, 8 color plates.
- Stefani Engelstein. Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 373 pp.
- Julia Freytag, Inge Stephan, and Hans-Gerd Winter, eds. J. M. R. Lenz-Handbuch. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 759 pp.
- Claudia Lillge, Thorsten Unger, and Björn Weyand, eds. Arbeit und Müßiggang in der Romantik. Paderborn: Fink, 2017. 494 pp.
- Asko Nivala. The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History. New York: Routledge, 2017. viii + 273 pp.
- Larry H. Peer and Christopher R. Clason, eds. Romantic Rapports: New Essays on Romanticism across the Disciplines. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2017. ix + 180 pp.
- Heather I. Sullivan and Caroline Schaumann, eds. German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 348 pp.
- Chad Wellmon. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 353 pp.
Summary
Work has long served as the object of literary, philosophical, and artistic reflection. Its alternatives are also well represented, particularly in German Romanticism. Caspar David Friedrich's Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (1818) offers a celebrated example of the latter, and features prominently on the cover of Arbeit und Müßiggang in der Romantik. Above the fog and in view of the wanderer, we also see Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870–73) by the Russian realist Ilya Repin. Because explicit depictions of work are largely absent in German Romantic painting, this striking image of manual labor was selected to counter Friedrich's iconic image (11–12). The workers, in tattered clothes and wearing blank expressions, contrast sharply with the well-dressed observer transposed to witness the men (and boy) yoked to a heavy vessel. Barge Haulers on the Volga clearly depicts work, but to what extent does Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer represent idleness, leisure, or perhaps another form of work? The twenty-eight essays in this volume demonstrate that the questions surrounding work and its other depend on circumstance and perspective.
The volume begins with a helpful introduction, which addresses work and idleness in Romantic painting, the contemporaneous understanding of key concepts, and a preview of the contributions. While the essays generally concentrate on works from the period, a few authors venture beyond the era but with due regard to the context. The collection is divided into five main sections. The first addresses various forms of Arbeit in Novalis (Franz-Jozef Deiters), Hölderlin (Sabine Doering), Chamisso (Christiane Weller), Heine (Dale Adams), and Büchner (Elke Brüns). The second shifts the focus to Muße and the related matters of Faulheit and Fleiß in Friedrich Schlegel's Idylle über den Müßiggang (Heide Volkening), Klingemann's Nachtwachen. Von Bonaventura (Mario Bosincu), Hölderlin's Hyperion (Leonhard Fuest), the Journal des Luxus und der Moden (Boris Roman Gibhardt), and Heine's Briefe aus Berlin and Lutezia (Robert Krause). The third section is dedicated to the arts and expands the scope of the volume; yet it remains heavily focused on literary texts with analyses of handcraft in Goethe and Heine (Michael Bies), the role of work and art in Klingemann's Nachtwachen (Tomasz Waszak), reflections on work and writing in Jean Paul (Monika Schmitz-Emans), and the work of poetry in Heinrich von Ofterdingen (James Hodkinson). The final essay here is the exception.
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- Goethe Yearbook 26Publications of the Goethe Society of North America, pp. 332 - 333Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019