Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Miscellaneous Observations 2. Logological Fragments I 3. Logological Fragments II 4. Monologue 5. Faith and Love or The King and Queen 6. Teplitz Fragments 7. On Goethe 8. General Draft 9. Christendom or Europe 10. Last Fragments Notes Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Margaret Mahony Stoljar is Reader in German at the Australian National University. She is the author of Athenaeum. A Critical Commentary; Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany. A Study in the Musical Sturm und Drang; and translator of Under the Night's Edge. A Selection of Poetry and Prose by Johannes Bobrowski.

Reviews

"A reliable, faithful, and readable English translation of Novalis's influential philosophical and aesthetic writings has been a conspicuous desideratum in Anglo-Saxon scholarship on German Romanticism. Stoljar's book fills this gap in every respect and is, therefore, most welcome and timely. The translation is impeccable and reflects the often highly complex original texts most felicitously. Stoljar's introduction is a model of sound and up-to-date critical scholarship: it provides circumspect exposure to Novalis as an independent and imaginative thinker, situates and characterizes the individual texts in the overall context of Novalis's conceptual universe, and abounds in clearly formulated interpretive insights. "In Stoljar's lucid translation, Novalis's writings come across as fascinating and seminal as they are in the German original; the collection is a veritable eye-opener for anyone concerned with the wide-ranging impact of the best of German Romantic thought on subsequent developments in European literature, philosophy, history, science, psychology, music, the visual arts, etc., in other words, across the entire cultural landscape through the nineteenth century to the present." - Steven Paul Scher, Dartmouth College