Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

Introduction
Interior and Exterior: G. E. Lessing's Laocoon as a Prelude to Romanticism
Image and Phantasm: Wackenroder's Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders, Tieck's Franz Sternbald's Wanderungen, and the Emergence of the Romantic Paradigm
Symbol and Allegory: Clemens Brentano's Godwi
Sublimity and Beauty: Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Anton Koch
Light and Dark: The Paintings of Philipp Otto Runge
Absolution and Contradiction: Confrontations with Art in Heinrich von Kleist's "Die heilige Cäcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik" and "Der Findling"
Self and Other: Joseph von Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.