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Article: Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany. By Theodore Ziolkowski. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2004. xii+215 pp. $35; 20.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8014-4202-8.
Clio the Romantic Muse completes Theodore Ziolkowski's tetralogy of books on German Romanticism. Like its forerunners, German Romanticism and its Institutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), Das Wunderjahr in Jena (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1998), and Berlin: Aufstieg einer kulturellen Metropole um 1810 (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2002), it is remarkably well informed and highly readable, and it casts new light on Romanticism; for that movement is seen ...