Who Is This Schiller Now?

Introduction: Why Is This Schiller [Still] in the United States? - Jeffrey L. High
Lenz und Schiller. Die erlebnissymptomatische Dramensprache - Hans Hiebel
Melancholy in Schiller's Dramas - Matthew Bell
Schillers Ästhetik der Trauer. Der Dichter als "elegischer" Lyriker und Dramatiker - Ehrhard Bahr
Glühendes Wort zum Ideal über der versagenden Realität -zu Schillers Balladen - Peter Pabisch
Zwischen Max Piccolomini und Buttler. Wallensteins Orts- und Zeitverluste - Norbert Oellers
Die Moralphilosophie des jungen Schiller. Ein 'Kantianerante litteram' - Laura Anna Macor
Aesthetic Humanism and Its Foes: The Perspective from Halle - David V. Pugh
Zur kulturpolitischen Dynamik des ästhetischen Spiels in Schillers Briefen Ueber die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen - Bernd Fischer
Die Empfänglichkeit für den ästhetischen Schein ist das a priorides Schönen in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft. Das Orientierendein Schillers Forderung der ästhetischen Erziehung des Menschen - Fritz Heuer
Energy and Schiller's Aesthetics from the "Philosophical" to the Aesthetic Letters - John A. McCarthy
"Making Other People's Feelings Our Own": From the Aesthetic to the Political in Schiller's Aesthetic Letters - María del Rosario Acosta
Schiller und die Demokratie - Yvonne Nilges
God's Warriors, Mercenaries, or Freedom Fighters? Politics, Warfare, and Religion in Schiller's Geschichte des Dreyßigjährigen Kriegs - Elisabeth Krimmer
Who Is This Black Knight? Schiller's Maid of Orleans and (Mythological) History - Erik Knoedler
Religion and Violence in Schiller's Late Tragedies - Wolfgang Riedel
So Who Was Naive? Schiller as Enlightenment Historian and His Successors - T. J. Reed
Schiller and the Gothic - Reception and Reality - Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo
Schiller's Plays on the British Stage, 1797-1825 - Frederick Burwick
From Martyr to Vampire: The Figure of Mary Stuart in Drama from Vondel to Swinburne - Ritchie Robertson
A Chapter of Schiller in America: The First World War and Volume 3 of Kuno Francke's Edition of The German Classics - Jeffrey L Sammons
The Reluctant Recruit? Schiller in the Trenches, 1914-1918 - Nicholas Martin
Schiller - Kommerell - George. Eine Konstellation der Moderne - Jörg Robert
Was sagte dieser Schiller (damals)? Schillers Antworten auf seine Kritiker nach 1945 - Henrik Sponsel
Maria Stuart Adaptations in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: From "Classical" Parodies to Contemporary Politics - Dennis Mahoney
Whose Schiller Is This? Das Fremde und das Eigene in US Auslandsgermanistik - Gail K. Hart
Schiller's Political Ideas: Who Cares? - Paul E. Kerry
Where is This Schiller Now? - Walter Hinderer
Notes on Contributors
Index

"[D]emands attention not least for the great variety of approaches chosen by its well-qualified contributors, all of whom share the common aim of liberating Schiller from his traditional role as the junior member of the Weimar partnership. . . . [T]he bulk of the constituent material gives us a Schiller still vibrantly alive -- now, and in the foreseeable future. --Osman Durrani," MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

"[A]n indispensable introduction to Schiller scholarship: it presents historicized research covering a broad range of Schiller's legacy, is extensively resourced, and demonstrates considerable self-reflexivity regarding international Germanistik." GOETHE YEARBOOK

"[A] rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . [B]oth specialists and more casual readers of Schiller's works, and indeed those readers with an interest in the history of ideas, stand to benefit from a sustained reading of the learned meditations contained within it." FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES

"[T]he premise of the book's conception [is] fully to be accepted, and finds realization in a number of important contributions that broaden and deepen our knowledge about Schiller's illusionless realism, his understanding of politics, his philosophical position, his critique of religion, and his skeptical treatment of historical experience in his poetic and theoretical works." GERMANISTIK

"Divided into five parts covering drama and poetry, aesthetics and philosophy, history and politics, reception and 'Schiller Now', the essays reveal Schiller as a dramatist of melancholy, a 'poet of Mourning', and an Enlightenment historian, to mention just three of the wide variety of perspectives offered . . . [a] useful contemporary collection. Recommended." CHOICE

"[P]ositions itself - rightly - over and against the mid-century creation of a politically naïve, if not dangerous, Schiller, who cartoonishly embodied the backlash within Anglo-American circles against German politics and German idealism. . . . [T]his collection is a conscious effort not only to avoid reducing Schiller to any of his readily identifiable personae, but also to interrogate the twentieth-century scholarly trends that have made this reduction something that must be avoided." GERMAN QUARTERLY