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Novalis traces the meteoric career of one of the most strikingand most strikingly misunderstoodfigures of German Romanticism. Although Friedrich von Hardenberg (better known by his pseudonym, Novalis) published scarcely eighty pages of writings in his lifetime, his considerable fame and influence continued to spread long after his death in 1801. His posthumous reputation, however, was largely based on the myth manufactured by opportunistic editors, as Wm. Arctander OBrien reveals in this book, the first to extract Hardenberg from the distortions of history. A member of the generation of the 1770s that included Hegel, Hlderlin, and Schelling, Hardenberg was an avid follower of the French Revolution, a semiotician avant la lettre , and a prescient critic of religion. Yet in 1802, only a year after his death, the writer who had scandalized the Prussian court was marketed to a nation at war as a reactionary patriot, a sweet versifier of Idealism, and a morbid mystic. Identifying the break between Hardenbergs own early Romanticism and the late Romanticism that falsified it, Novalis shows us a writer fully engaged in revolutionary politics and examines his semiotic readings of philosophy

Author

O'Brien, William Arctander.

Publisher

Duke University Press, 1995.

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822315193

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography