From "Romantick" to "Romantic" -- Goethe and the Romantics -- Early Romanticism -- From Goethe's Wilhelm Meister to anti-Meister novels -- Tales of wonder and terror -- The Romantic drama -- German Romantic poetry in theory and practice -- The turn to history and the Volk -- History and moral imperatives -- Romanticism and natural science -- Gender studies and Romanticism -- The Romantic preoccupation with musical meaning -- Romanticism and the visual arts -- Goethe's late verse -- The reception of German Romanticism in the twentieth century.