... Jockers. It is a sub- stantial piece of work and a credit to its sponsor and its author. The fate of the term “Biedermeier” in characterizing literary tendencies of the early nineteenth century parallels somewhat the fate of another term of art criticism, “Baroque,” for the designation...

...James Rolleston Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THE LEGACY OF IDEALISM SCHILLER, MORIKE AND BIEDERMEIER CULTURE By JAMES ROLLESTON Friedrich Schiller and Eduard Miirike...

...* In the twenties and thirties research into Grillparzer pursued, among others, four paths which are still visible in the underbrush of accumu- lating studies : it weighed the elements of Classicism and Romanticism, investigated his Baroque antecedents, considered his share in the Austrian Biedermeier...

...Wolfgang Paulsen Wolfgang Stammler. 19. Lieferung, II. Teil: Geschichte des deutschen Romans vom Biedermeier bis zur Gegenwart. Rudolf Majut. Berlin/Bielefeld/München: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1954. Pp. xv + 2178–2478. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956...

..., is missing. Other items that I should like to have seen included are Vancsa’s “Grillparzer Bibliographie” ( 1937), Stefan Hock’s larger study, Der Traum, ein Leben (19O4), Walzel’s “Biedermeier” (Die Literafur, 1936), Martini’s “Ergebnisse und Aufgaben der Dichtungsge- schichte des 19...

.... Pp. 190. This volume had its origin in a doctoral dissertation written at the University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of Professor Ernst Jockers. It is a sub- stantial piece of work and a credit to its sponsor and its author. The fate of the term “Biedermeier” in characterizing...

... and the Biedermeier Crisis” ; Wolfgang Philip von Schmertzing, “Mittelhochdeutsche Jagerworter vom Hund.” Finally, Professor Shelley has gathered together a bibliography of Professor Walz’s rich and fruitful investigations extending from 18% to the present, a worthy goal which many of Professor Walz’s...

...Virgil P. Nemoianu Virgil P. Nemoianu is W. J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. His books include The Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier (1984) and A Theory of the Secondary...

..., “Functional Burdening of Stressed Vowels in German” ; Thomas K. Brown, Jr., “Goethe’s Lila as a Fragment of the Great Confession”; Fred 0. Nolte, “Art and Reality”; George J. Met- calf, “Abstractions as Forms of Address in Fifteenth Century Ger- man” ; Alan Holske, “Stifter and the Biedermeier Crisis...

..., literary and intellectual life in this part of Europe witnessed the sharp Enlightenment- Romanticism demarcations of western Europe to a much more modest extent; instead, the Biedermeier style and mentalities were considerably expanded. The nineteenth century was in fact the golden...

... Enlightenment- Romanticism demarcations of western Europe to a much more modest extent; instead, the Biedermeier style and mentalities were considerably expanded. The nineteenth century was in fact the golden age of “Mittel- europa,” and I wish that Konstantinovic´ and Rinner had...

... among the different groups of central Europe. Consequently, literary and intellectual life in this part of Europe witnessed the sharp Enlightenment- Romanticism demarcations of western Europe to a much more modest extent; instead, the Biedermeier style and mentalities were...

... of central Europe. Consequently, literary and intellectual life in this part of Europe witnessed the sharp Enlightenment- Romanticism demarcations of western Europe to a much more modest extent; instead, the Biedermeier style and mentalities were considerably expanded. The nineteenth...

... of western Europe to a much more modest extent; instead, the Biedermeier style and mentalities were considerably expanded. The nineteenth century was in fact the golden age of “Mittel- europa,” and I wish that Konstantinovic´ and Rinner had emphasized this more energetically. Yet...

... of central Europe. Consequently, literary and intellectual life in this part of Europe witnessed the sharp Enlightenment- Romanticism demarcations of western Europe to a much more modest extent; instead, the Biedermeier style and mentalities were considerably expanded. The nineteenth...

... period. Yet one questions the wisdom of such attempts in so concentrated a work: the affinities which they draw-like their application of the Biedermeier label to Jane Austen (p. 269)-often seem of the most superficial sort, while their con- ceptions of movements like Pre-Romanticism...

.... $7.50. Burkhard, Arthur (translator). The Jewess of Toledo : Historical Tragedy in Five Acts ; Esther : Dramatic Fragment, by Franz Grillparzer. Yarmouth Port, Mass.: The Register Press, 1953. Pp. 151. $3.00. Drake, Patricia. Grillparzer and Biedermeier. Waco, Texas : Baylor...

... deutschen Romans vom Biedcrmeier bis zur Gegm- wurt. By RUDOLFMAJUT. Berlin/Bielefeld/Miinchen : Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1954. Pp. xv + 2178-2478. Majut’s article on the history of German fiction from Biedermeier to the present concludes the second volume of the monumental ornnibus...

... of domestic comfort in Victorian culture, cognate with German Biedermeier. In this view of British Victorian culture, Praz chimes with Moretti’s bourgeois. Moretti’s brilliance has won him the right to tell English and American readers terrible things about their favorite writers, such as Jane Austen...

... and depth of a mode of thought that remains in the shadow of a much narrower canon of “high” Romanticism. The moderating discourses that Nemoianu wants to label Biedermeier are not criticisms of Romanticism. They have accepted, to be sure, a reduc- tion or domestication of Romanticism...