This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This volume makes accessible for the first time in English Wackenroder's Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (1787).

When viewed through their complex narrative structure, however, these texts are revealed as performative works of art that promulgate an aesthetic vision closely tied to patriarchy and homosociality.

Das Hauptwerk Wackenroders und ein wichtiges Zeugnis der Frühromantik: Mit dieser Sammlung kunsttheoretischer Aufsätze und Beobachtungen, Gedichte sowie (fiktiver) Künstlerbiographien lässt Wackenroder einen Klosterbruder zu Wort kommen ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.