Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A Note on Sources -- A Note on Money -- 1. Family, Childhood and Youth (1767-1794) -- Antecedents -- 'From One House Four Such Marvellous Minds' -- Johann Adolf Schlegel -- Growing Up in Hanover -- Siblings -- Childhood and Schooling -- G�ottingen -- Gottfried August B�urger: 'Young Eagle' -- The First Translations -- Johann Dominik Fiorillo -- Caroline Michaelis-B�ohmer -- Summer 1791-Summer 1795: Amsterdam, Mainz, Leipzig -- Caroline's Tribulations -- Schlegel in Amsterdam -- 'Du, Caroline und ich': Friedrich Schlegel -- 2. Jena and Berlin (1795-1804) -- 'Devoting Myself Exclusively to the Profession of a Writer' -- 2.1 Jena -- Die Horen -- Goethe and Schiller on the Attack: The Xenien -- Schlegel's Reviews: Language, Metrics -- Dante -- The Shakespeare Translation -- The Wilhelm Meister Essay -- The Jena Group -- The Genesis of the Athenaeum -- The Group Meets in Dresden -- Professor in Jena -- The Fichte Affair -- The Scandal of Lucinde -- Foregathering in Jena -- The First Strains -- The Death of Auguste B�ohmer -- Elegies for the Dead and the Living -- Schlegel's Contributions to the Athenaeum -- The Essays on Art -- Schlegel's Lectures in Jena -- 2.2 Berlin (1801-1804) -- The End of Jena: Controversies and Polemics -- The Essay on B�urger -- Sophie Tieck-Bernhardi -- The Ion Fiasco -- Polemics, Caricatures and Lampoons -- Friedrich Schlegel's Europa -- Calder�on -- 2.3 The Berlin Lectures -- 3. The Years with Madame de Sta�el (1804-1817) -- Holding Things Together -- Germaine de Sta�el-Holstein -- Madame de Sta�el and Germany -- The Meeting of Sta�el and Schlegel -- Schlegel in Coppet -- In Italy with Madame de Sta�el 1804-1805 -- 3.1 With Madame de Sta�el in Coppet and Acosta 1805-1807 -- The Writer in Diaspora -- Consid�erations sur la civilisation en g�en�eral.

On some Tragic Roles of Madame de Sta�el -- Corinne, ou l'Italie -- Swiss Journeyings with Albert de Sta�el -- Comparaison entre la Ph�edre de Racine et celle d'Euripide (1807) -- 3.2 Vienna -- Travelling to Vienna with Madame de Sta�el -- Friedrich Schlegel: Rome and India -- The Vienna Lectures -- Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature -- Further Travels -- Back to Coppet -- De l'Allemagne -- Holed up in Berne -- The Dash to Vienna -- De l'Allemagne: The Book Itself -- The Last Days in Coppet -- 3.3 The Flight: Caught Up in History -- Through Germany, Austria and Russia, to Sweden -- In the Service of Bernadotte: The Political Pamphleteer -- Political and Military Developments 1813-1814 -- England and France 1814 -- The Return to Scholarship -- Italy, Coppet, Paris: The Death of Madame de Sta�el -- 3.4 Scholarly Matters -- Learned Reviews -- Medieval Studies -- The Nibelungenlied -- 4. Bonn and India (1818-1845) -- 4.1 Bonn -- 'Chevalier de plusieurs ordres' -- Auguste and Albertine -- The European Celebrity -- Friedrich Schlegel in Frankfurt -- Marriage -- The University of Bonn -- The Bonn Professor -- The Carlsbad Decrees -- The Professor's Day -- Teacher and Taught -- The Content of the Lectures -- 4.2 India -- The Indische Bibliothek -- Paris and London 1820-1823 -- Educating the Young -- Paris and London Again -- The Sanskrit Editions -- 5. The Past Returns -- Friedrich Schlegel -- Ludwig Tieck -- Goethe -- The 1827 Art Lectures in Berlin -- Heinrich Heine -- 5.1 The Last Years 1834-1845 -- The Works of Frederick the Great -- Illness and Death -- Epilogue -- Short Biographies -- Select Bibliography -- Primary Texts -- Texts and Editions of August Wilhelm Schlegel -- Secondary Literature -- List of Illustrations -- Main Text -- Short Biographies -- Index.

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