Reading Heinrich Heine »

Anthony Phelan is Lecturer in German at Keble College, Oxford.

The most comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet to be published in English for many years.

Acknowledgements     vii
Introduction     ix
The Biographical Imperative
The biographical imperative: Karl Kraus     3
The biographical imperative: Theodor Adorno     20
The biographical imperative: Helmut Heibenbuttel - pro domo     33
From the private life of Everyman: self-presentation and authenticity in Buch der Lieder     46
In the diplomatic sense: reading Reisebilder     91
The Real Heine
How to become a symbolist: Heine and the anthologies of Stefan George and Rudolf Borchardt     113
The real Heine: Atta Troll and allegory     129
Ventriloquism in Ludwig Borne. Eine Denkschrift     151
Parisian Writing
Scheherazade's snapshots: Lutetia     181
Mathilde's interruption: archetypes of modernity in Heine's later poetry     209
Epilogue
The tribe of Harry: Heine and contemporary poetry     245
Notes     265
Bibliography     291
Index     303