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Article: Reading Heinrich Heine.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2008
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Reading Heinrich Heine. By ANTHONY PHELAN. (Cambridge Studies in German) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. 328 pp. 55[pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-052r-86399-5.
The deceptively simple title of this monograph conceals a complex project. Heine has often been regarded as a Romantic writer, occasionally as a vaguely defined post-Romantic. Rarely, however, has he been claimed, as Anthony Phelan would have it, for modernism. One reason is simply the years in which he lived and wrote: the first half of the nineteenth century is not yet the time of European modernism, which signals its onset--typically delayed in the special case of Germany--only after 1850, ...