WorkAugust Wilhelm von Schlegel

Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature]

Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] (1809–11) Inferred

August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767–1845) · Heidelberg: Mohr und Zimmer, 1809–11

InferredFuller invokes Schlegel as a critical authority on Shakespeare's layered meanings, citing his observation that Shakespeare's subtle expressions contain double meanings beneath the surface. as Hudspeth identified as A.W. Schlegel's *Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur* (1809–11), the influential lectures on Shakespeare and drama.

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Documented 1834–1840

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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“Mrs Jameson inveighs against ridicule as if she had sat at the feet of A.W. Schlegel.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Schlegel' — referring to his influence on dramatic criticism. Fuller's own commentary suggests she has read Schlegel's lectures; no specific title named explicitly. Schlegel as the intellectual authority behind Jameson's critical stance against ridicule. The Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1809–11; English translation 1815) is Schlegel's most influential work and the one most likely in Fuller's mind

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It has been justly remarked by Schlegel and other apprehensive critics, that, as all the world was in our Shakspeare, and he expressed the gift of the bard or seer with the tact of the man of the world, so there lies beneath very slight expressions of his thought a double meaning like that supposed in the Swedenborgian construction.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller invokes Schlegel as a critical authority on Shakespeare's layered meanings, citing his observation that Shakespeare's subtle expressions contain double meanings beneath the surface. as Hudspeth identified as A.W. Schlegel's Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1809–11), the influential lectures on Shakespeare and drama.

as Hudspeth identified as A.W.