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Heinse, America, And Utopianism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Harold Von Hope
Harold Von Hope*
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While older literary historians dismissed Wilhelm Heinse as the author of the frivolous novel Ardinghello, in recent decades critics and scholars have noted his significance. Through the research of Walther Brecht, Walther Rehm, Oskar Weibel, Albert Zippel, and Richard Benz we now know Heinse not only as a novelist but also as a gifted interpreter of classical antiquity and of the Renaissance, as an art critic who defended Rubens against neoclassical criticism, as a forerunner of Romanticism, as an early advocate of the rehabilitation of the flesh and of a Nietzschean affirmation of life. In the recently published Annalen der deutschen Literatur (Stuttgart, 1952) p. 465, Wolfdietrich Rasch singled out Heinse's Ardinghello along with Goethe's Iphigenie, Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft, and Mozart's Don Juan, to exemplify the extent and diversity of German cultural life at the end of the eighteenth century.

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PMLA , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , June 1957, pp. 390 - 402
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1957

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Note 1 in page 391 Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (Leipzig, 1892), pp. 177–178.

Note 2 in page 391 Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (Leipzig, 1882), p. 110.

Note 3 in page 391 Citations from Heinse in my text are from Samtliche Werke, ed. Carl Schüddekopf (Leipzig, 1902–25).

Note 4 in page 391 Wilhelm Heinse: Vom grossen Leben (München, 1943), p. 25.

Note 5 in page 392 Citations from Nietzsche in my text are from Werke (Leipzig: Kroner, 1902–26).

Note 6 in page 393 Derjunge Heinse (München und Leipzig, 1912), p. 26, 110.

Note 7 in page 393 Citations from Ardinghello in my text are from the edition by Herbert Eulenberg (Berlin, 1923).

Note 8 in page 394 C. H. Gildemeister, Johann Gearg Bamann's “Autorschafl ihrem Inhalte nach” (Gotha, 1863), iv, 208.

Note 9 in page 394 Novalis, Gesammelle Werke, ed. Carl Seelig (Zurich, 1945), v, 55.

Note 10 in page 395 Rudolph Wagner, Samuel Thomas von Sommering's Leben uni Verkehr mit seinen Zeitgenossen (Leipzig, 1844), ii, 15–16.

Note 11 in page 395 For a full discussion of America and German historians see Eugene Edgar Doll, “American History as Interpreted by German Historians from 1770 to 1815,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S., xxxviii (1948), 421–434.

Note 12 in page 395 See Doll, op. cit., and Henry S. King, Echoes of the American Revolution in German Literature (Berkeley, Calif., 1929), pp. 112–152.

Note 13 in page 395 As quoted by King, pp. 115–116.

Note 14 in page 396 Heinseund der ästketisckc Immoralismus (Berlin, 1911), pp. 54–67; Wilhelm Heinse und Italien (Jena, 1930), pp. 29–31; Nietzsche (Mtinchen, 1913), p. 85.