Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hibberd, John

Titel

Kleist, Arndt, and the Swedish Monarchy

Ist Teil von

• Modern Language Review, 2004-01, Vol.99 (1), p.101-111

Ort / Verlag

Belfast: Maney Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Swedish items in the "Berliner Abendblätter" of 1810 are linked with Kleist's hatred of Napoleon and with his thoughts on the fate of Gustav IV. They contain an indirect call for militant action against French imperialism and include a piece by Ernst Moritz Arndt, who admired Gustav the reformer as well as the fanatical opponent of Napoleon and who scorned Adam Müller's backward-looking brand of Prussian patriotism. They reflect, not a rejection of Hardenberg's reform programme, but concern that a division within Prussia between progressives and conservatives threatened the ideal unity of national purpose which was Kleist's overriding preoccupation.