Romanticism: A German Affair

by Rüdiger Safranski

Book Overview

The renowned scholar R diger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism and, more critically, traces its lasting influence, for better and for ill, on German culture. Safranski begins with the eighteenthcentury Sturm und Drang movement, which would sow the seeds for Romanticism in Germany. While Romanticism was a broad artistic, literary, and intellectual movement, German thinkers were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810134128
• ISBN13: 9780810134126
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"