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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...

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...

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.

Using as his starting point the historical notion that poets may be, at least in moments of inspiration, "out of their senses," Frederick Burwick here explores the theoretical implications of inspiration as furor poeticus, particularly as that concept was presented during the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on social and medical attitudes toward madness and the so-called poetic rapture, Burwick addresses the appeal to poetic madness in critical theory, the thematization of the mad poet in literature, and the reception of mad poets.

With a mad king...