The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism.
This study situates the Jena romantics\' "fragmentary" model of literature--a model of literature as the production of its own theory--in relation to t.
The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum group: the Schlegel brothers, Schelling, and Novalis.
The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism