The Wanderer In Nineteenth-Century German Literature »

Pathbreaking examination of the prominent 19th-c. motif with an eye toward literature as social commentary.

1 The wanderer as the subject of education 13

2 The wanderer in the Romantic imagination 60

3 The wanderer in political discourse 101

4 Wandering at the margins : journeymen and vagabonds 168

Conclusion 222

Works cited 233

Index 251