This study restores and enhances the philosophical aspect of early German Romanticism, offering an understanding of the movement's origins, development, aims an

Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.

Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.

Often portrayed as a movement of poets lost in swells of passion, early German Romanticism has been generally overlooked by scholars in favor of the great syste

What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common —