Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's "Italia Und Germania" Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol.

by Lionel Gossman

In this thought-provoking book, Gossman focuses on Overbeck's "Italia and Germania" to discuss the importance of religious conversion in Romantic thought. Gossman gives excellent translations from original German sources that are not only accurate but may enable the Anglophone reader to truly grasp the spirit of the sources. This book serves as a thoughtful and elegantly written introduction to the way of thinking of one of the most important of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871699753
• ISBN13: 9780871699756
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 101 Pages