Abstract
This essay examines a tension in Ranke’s writing of history between universal developments on the one hand and the individual historical phenomena which manifest such developments on the other. Ranke’s "Geschichte Wallensteins" (1869) is seen as an attempt to resolve this tension by narrating seventeenth-century German history through biography. The ambiguities woven in to the Wallenstein figure by Schiller, in his history of the Thirty Years’ War (1790-92) and drama "Wallenstein" (1800) are suggested as valuable precursors to Ranke’s narrative technique.
| Translated title of the contribution | "Geschichte Wallensteins": Ranke's Problem of Narrative – and Schiller's Solution? |
|---|---|
| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | Textual Intersections: Literature, History and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe |
| Editors | Rachael Langford |
| Publisher | Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi |
| Pages | 89 - 105 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789042027312 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Other: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 129Research Groups and Themes
- Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition