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The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of “Unity of Time” and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business that had become more urgent with the industrial revolution. In reviewing the theatre of the Romantic era, this monograph draws attention to the ways in which theatre reflected the pervasive...

In Romantic theories of art and literature, the notion of mimesis--defined as art's reflection of the external world--became introspective and self-reflexive as poets and artists sought to represent the act of creativity itself. Frederick Burwick seeks to elucidate this Romantic aesthetic, first by offering an understanding of key Romantic mimetic concepts and then by analyzing manifestations of the mimetic process in literary works of the period.

Burwick explores the mimetic concepts of "art for art's sake," "Idem et Alter," and "palingenesis of mind as art" by drawing on the...

Gegenstand des Kolloquiums, das im Sommer 1998 von der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft veranstaltet wurde, waren Leben und Werk Arnims von der Schulzeit uber das Studium bis zu den Reisejahren. Die reiche Vielfalt der Gedankenwelt und literarischen Produktion des jungen Arnim, die ungewohnliche Breite seiner Bildung wurden detailliert und in Zusammenhangen einsichtig: vor allem durch die Erschlieung bisher unbekannter Quellen und die Vereinigung von biographisch-literarischen mit philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen.

Burwick examines the debate over illusion from Johnson to Coleridge in England, Diderot to Stendhal in France, and Lessing to A. W. Schlegel in Germany.

Although few critics still define illusion in contrast to reality, the essential distinction is between illusion as perceived reality and as hallucination or delusion. The concept of illusion as debated in contemporary critical theory has been shaped by developments that took place during the transition from Enlightenment to Romantic thought. Burwick provides a commentary on illusion in contemporary criticism, emphasizing the ways in...