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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
For Jordan, who grew up
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Textual Note
Introduction: Benjamin’s Baroque: A Lost Object?
1. Inventing the Baroque: A Critical History of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Debates
The Renaissance of the German Baroque in the “Epistemo-Critical Prologue”
Locating Baroque Style
Origin and the “Heroic” Age of the German Literary Baroque
2. The Plays Are the Thing: Textual Politics and the German Drama
The Origin of the Silesian School: Nationalism and the Baroque Tragic Drama
Collecting the Baroque: Editing the German Dramatic Tradition
The Task of the Translator: Shakespeare as German Tragic Drama
3. Melancholy Germans: War Theology, Allegory, and the Lutheran Baroque
Benjamin’s Hamlet in the Crosshairs of War Theology
Reforming the Baroque: Benjamin on Warburg on Luther
Allegory, Emblems, and Gryphius’s Catharina von Georgien
Conclusion: Baroque Legacies: National Socialism’s Benjamin
Bibliography
Series editor: Peter Uwe Hohendahl,
Cornell University Press and Cornell
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