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Kreuz-Gange: Romanexperimente der deutschen Romantik. By NICOLA KAMINSKI. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, and Zurich: Schoningh. 2001. 466 pp. 44.99 [euro]. ISBN 3-506-74255-8 (pbk).
Ever since Friedrich Schlegel's definition of the novel (Roman) as a Romantic book, the efforts of the German Romantics in this genre have served as paradigms of the literary movement itself, but also as evidence of their creators' alleged muddle-headedness and lack of artistic control. Over the past forty years, to be sure, these novels have received a goodly number of informed and appreciative treatments; one need think only of Eric Blackall's masterful overview of The Novels of the German Romantics (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983)--one of the few major omissions in Nicola Kaminski's extensive bibliography (pp. 437-66)--which makes a convincing case for the truly novel nature of these literary experiments. All the same, in the introduction to her demanding but stimulating...
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