Dante in Deutschland - An Itinerary of Romantic Myth

Around 1800, German Romantics fixated on Dante's Divine Comedy as a model for the creation of a new mythology of reason. This book traces that fixation across Romantic and Neo-Romantic texts, showing how the Romantic Dante cult in fact generated ominous amalgams of art, myth, and fascism in the twentieth century.

List of contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

A Note on Translation

Introduction: Orienting Romanticism

Part I: Romanticism

1. Discovering Dante and Theorizing Myth: The Schlegel Brothers and the Origins of the Romantic Project

2. Schelling, Novalis, and the Legitimation of a Dantean Mythology

3. Goethe's Dantean Mythologies of the Self and of the World

Part II: Neo-Romanticism

4. Trespassing the Sign: The Mad Flight of Gerhart Hauptmann

5. Abolishing History: New Dantean Germanies in Rudolf Borchardt and Stefan George

6. Thomas Mann and the Demythologization of Dante

Conclusion

Acknowledgments     

Notes

Bibliography              

Index

About the author

DANIEL DiMASSA is an assistant professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Summary

Shows how Dante’s Divine Comedy shaped the development of German Romanticism. The book argues that the weight of Dante’s influence induced a Romantic preoccupation with authority: Who was authorized to create a mythology?

Product details

• Authors: Daniel DiMassa
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781684484195
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-419-5
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: New Studies in the Age of Goethe; New Studies in the Age of Goet
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies