Memory in German Romanticism

Christopher R. Clason is Professor Emeritus at Oakland University, with research interests in Medieval epic poetry (especially in Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan und Isolde) and German Romantic prose, particularly in the novels of E.T.A. Hoffmann. He is past president of the International Tristan Society and the International Conference on Romanticism. Joseph D. Rockelmann is Teaching Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research interests in German Romanticism, Ludwig Tieck, and Ekphrasis studies. Publications include Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind (2018), and "The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck’s Liebeszauber" (2021). Christina M. Weiler is Teaching Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on German literature, culture, and philosophy of the long eighteenth century in a comparative and interdisciplinary framework, with a particular interest in metaphor, cognition, and environmental studies.

Introduction: Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception

Christopher R. Clason, Joseph D. Rockelmann, and Christina M. Weiler

Part I

Imagination

1 Amnesia, Chaos, Trauma: Kleist’s Memory Games

Steven R. Huff

2 Hoffmann’s "Sandmann," Henri Bergson, and the Matter of Memory

Julian Knox

3 Memory, Fact, and Fiction: Imaginative Biographical Representation in the Novels of E.T.A. Hoffmann

Christopher R. Clason

Part II

Image

4 Memory and Self-Reflection in Sophie Tieck Bernhardi von Knorring’s Fairy Tale "Der Greis im Felsen" (1800)

Christina M. Weiler

5 The Memorialization of the Aesthetic and the Aestheticization of Memory: Reading the Hermit in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Robert E. Mottram

6 The Effect of Memory Embellishments on Reality in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s "Des Vetters Eckfenster"

Joseph D. Rockelmann

7 Images for Memories: From Ekphrasis to Excess of Memory in German Romantic Literature

Beate I. Allert

Part III

Reception

8 The Failure of Social Memory to Validate the Icelandic Translation of "Der blonde Eckbert" (1835)

Shaun F.D. Hughes

9 Urban Palimpsests and Contentious Memorials: Cultural Memory and Heinrich Heine

Bartell Berg

10 No Mass or Kaddish: The Forgotten Poet in Heinrich Heine’s Late Poetry

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo