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Introduction
1. From Romanticism to Realism: Negations, Transitions, Transformations
Rainer Hillenbrand
Realistische Romantik in Tiecks letzter Novelle Waldeinsamkeit
Jesko Reiling
Die poetischeren Momente der Erscheinungswelt . Berhold Auerbachs Romantikrezeption
Gert Vonhoff
Romantisches und der Prototyp des realistischen Erzählens. Gedanken zur Evolution der Dorfgeschichte
Benedict Schofield Die Willkür der alten Romantik . The Romantic Legacy in Gustav Freytag s Literary Works and Theory
Magdolna Orosz
Verabschiedung und Fortsetzung der Romantik im Frühwerk von Theodor Storm. Eine intertextuelle Analyse der Novelle Immensee
2. Realism and Romanticism and the Two Cultures: Science, Literature and Modernity
Martina King
Der romantische Arzt als Erzähler. Medizinisches Wissen in Stifters Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters (1868)
Christiane Arndt
Fieberkrank Realistisches Erzählen als romantische Ansteckung bei Raabe und Storm
3. Romanticism in Realism I: Uncanny Returns
Christian Begemann
Gespenster des Realismus. Poetologie Epistemologie Psychologie in Fontanes Unterm Birnbaum
Philip Ajouri
Vom unerklärbaren Übernatürlichen zur unerklärten Natur. Gottfried Kellers Die Geisterseher und sein romantischer Prätext, E.T.A. Hoffmanns Ein Fragment aus dem Leben dreier Freunde
Nicholas Saul Unsere tägliche Selbsttäuschung gib uns heute! Spiritualism and the Presence of Romantic Poetics in Raabe s Vom alten Proteus (1875)
Martina Süess Solange der Götze gilt . Romantische Reminiszenzen in Fontanes Effi Briest
4. Romanticism in Realism II: Memory, Art, History
Dirk Göttsche
The Place of Romanticism in the Literary Memory of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars (1848-1914). Roquette, Raabe and Jensen
Martin Swales
The Need to Believe and the Impossibility of Belief. Romantic and Realistic Strategies in Gottfried Keller s Der grüne Heinrich
Ralf Simon
Geschichtsverlauf und Subjektgenese. Zu einem Deutungsmuster romantischer Geschichtsphilosophie und der realistischen Korrektur bei Raabe (Im Siegeskranze, Horacker)
5. Romanticism, Realism, and Beyond
Russell A. Berman The Integrity of Fiction in the Age of Realism: Theodor Storm
Notes on the Contributors
Index

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When writers and critics such as Gustav Freytag, Julian Schmidt and Berthold Auerbach constituted the new literary movement called "Realism" in response to the 1848 revolution and its defeat, "Romanticism" acted as a critical foil for the new departure. This polemically motivated and historically-anchored terminology has survived in today´s orthodox view that "Realism" and "Romanticism" mark not just two distinct periods in literary history, but also two radically opposed concepts of literature. Combining theoretical approaches and overviews with a range of case studies, interdisciplinary investigations and comparative enquiries, this volume reassesses German Realism´s relationship with Romanticism and sheds new light on the multiple ways in which writers from Stifter and Keller to Raabe and Fontane remember Romanticism, engaging with its problems, themes, motifs and poetics. By re-examining the engagement with Romanticism in the literature and culture of Realism between c. 1840 and 1900, the book challenges existing concepts of periodisation and works towards a more differentiated understanding of the complex dynamics in the field of nineteenth-century "realisms" and their role in the overarching intellectual trajectories from Romanticism to Modernism.

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