Table des matières
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
- Göttingen
- Gottfried August Bürger: ‘Young Eagle’
- The First Translations
- Johann Dominik Fiorillo
- Caroline Michaelis-Böhmer
- 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)
- 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 Böhmer
- 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 Bürger
- Sophie Tieck‑Bernhardi
- The Ion Fiasco
- Polemics, Caricatures and Lampoons
- Friedrich Schlegel’s Europa
- Calderón
- 2.3 The Berlin Lectures
3. The Years with Madame de Staël (1804-1817)
- Holding Things Together
- Germaine de Staël-Holstein
- Madame de Staël and Germany
- The Meeting of Staël and Schlegel
- Schlegel in Coppet
- In Italy with Madame de Staël 1804-1805
- 3.1 With Madame de Staël in Coppet and Acosta 1805-1807
- The Writer in Diaspora
- Considérations sur la civilisation en général
- On some Tragic Roles of Madame de Staël
- Corinne, ou l’Italie
- Swiss Journeyings with Albert de Staël
- Comparaison entre la Phèdre de Racine et celle d’Euripide (1807)
- 3.2 Vienna
- Travelling to Vienna with Madame de Staël
- 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 Staël
- 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 Lecture
- 4.2 India
- The Indische Bibliothek
- Paris and London 1820-1823
- Educating the Young
- Paris and London Again
- The Sanskrit Editions
