TY - BOOK AU - Thomas Paul Bonfiglio AU - Betty H. Lockhart PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Achim von Arnim's «Novellensammlung 1812» T2 - Balance and Mediation UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078390 N2 - Working within the context of current Arnim studies, Bonfiglio demonstrates how Novellensammlung 1812 is a coherent opus that allegorically represents a cosmology structured by Arnim's early work in physics along with his reception of Schelling's Naturphilosophie. These influences laid the foundation for an electromagnetic cosmology that informs Arnim's historiography, aesthetics, and poetics. Bonfiglio focuses his study on how Arnim's Romantic science determines his use of tropes, his Romantic idealism, and his own idiom of Romantic irony. KW - Naturphilosophie, Romantic science, irony, idealism, Novellensammlung LA - English ER -