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Nineteenth-Century Aestheticians and Literary Historians

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The Enigma of Emilia Galotti

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The reason for including the views of a number of representative nineteenth-century aestheticians and historians of literature in this study is to obtain a more comprehensive picture of attitudes toward Emilia Galotti. It will be seen that their remarks are often brief, sometimes very superficial, and consequently require no further comment. The treatment of the various figures will be in the form of a chronological arrangement of the first editions of the works from which their views are taken.

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  2. Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung, hg. Karl Bartsch, fünfte Auflage (Leipzig, 1873), IV, 453 ff. The first edition appeared 1835–40.

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  3. Gervinus quotes Goethe’s remark of indebtedness to Emilia Galotti as a work which inspired the “young people” (see Chapter IV above).

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  4. Vorlesungen über die Geschichte des deutschen Theaters (Berlin, 1847), P. 278. Cf. Moriz Carriere below.

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  5. See his Aesthetik oder Wissenschaft des Schönen (zweiter Theil: Die Lehre von der Phantasie) (Reutlingen and Leipzig, 1848), p. 387.

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  6. Die deutsche Nationallitteratur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, sechste vermehrte and verbesserte Auflage (Breslau, 1881), I, 281. The first edition appeared in 1854.

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  7. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im achtzehnten Jahrhundert zweite umgearbeitete Auflage (Braunschweig, 1872).

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  8. See especially the section entitled “Das Zeitalter Friedrichs des Großen” (Dritter Theil, zweites Buch), pp. 532 ff. The first edition was printed in 1856.

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  9. See his letter of November 8, 1859, to Hebbel (Chapter VII, p. 90, footnote 2 above).

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  10. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, sechste unveränderte Auflage (Leipzig, 1873), II, 613. The first edition appeared 1851–1859.

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  11. Cf. Edward Dvoretzky, tr., Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: “Emilia Galotti” (New York, 1962), p. X.

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  12. Aesthetik (Leipzig, 1859 ), II, 601.

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  13. Cf. Carriere’s Die Poesie (Leipzig, 1884 ), P. 683, where

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  14. he writes of Emilia Galotti: “…. die Charaktere entwickeln sich in der Handlung und bereiten sich das Geschick, sie sind individueller gezeichnet als bei den Griechen oder Franzosen, tief angelegt wie bei Shakespeare, aber doch typischer….”

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  16. Ueber den Charakter der Emilia Galotti in Schriften zur Kritik und Litteraturgeschichte, aus dem Nachlaß hg. von Georg Witkowski (Berlin, 1903), III, 187–2o6. This study appeared first in Morgenblatt, XIII—XIV (1864).

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  17. Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur, fünfte Auflage (Berlin, 1889). The first edition of this work appeared in 1883.

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  18. See his article “Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Zum 15. Februar 1881” in Deutsche Rundschau, XXVI (r88r), 289. Scherer is thus apparently of the opinion that the emotional impact of Emilia Galotti as a whole is indeed important.

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  19. Ibid., p. 290. Note Scherer’s comment: “Aber wie dem auch sei, jedenfalls darf man sagen: Emilia Galotti ist sein Antimacchiavell.”

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  20. Die Lessing-Legende, zur Geschichte und Kritik des preussischen Despotismus und der klassischen Literatur, Bücherei des Marxismus-Leninismus, Bd. 25 (Berlin, 1953), p. 388 f.

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  21. Cf. Börne, Chapter VI, Part B above, who used the same expression.

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  22. Friedrich Vogt and Max Koch, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, dritte Auflage (Leipzig and Wien, x910), II, 183 f. The first edition was published in 1897.

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Dvoretzky, E. (1963). Nineteenth-Century Aestheticians and Literary Historians. In: The Enigma of Emilia Galotti. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0949-7_9

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