Robert E. Mottram is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Whitman College. Christopher R. Clason is Emeritus Professor of German at Oakland University. He is the editor of E. T. A. Hoffmann: Transgressive Romanticism (2018) and co-editor of Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (2020), Romantic Rapports: New Essays on Romanticism Across the Disciplines (2017) and Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia during the Romantic Era (2011).

‘For what is under review here is an outstanding scholarly achievement—a book of great clarity in thinking and presentation, of formidable, impeccable research, a monograph displaying sovereign command of her material as well as an enthusiasm that never obscures but always illuminates what it examines.’Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

• Part I. Romantic Assembly Across the Thresholds of Theory and DisciplineChapter 1: From the Fluid to the Crystal: Goethe’s Metamorphosis and Fichte’s Science of KnowingBeate Allert Chapter 2: Alexander von Humboldt, the Naturgemälde, and Ansichten der Natur: Assembling Nature between Sensuality and ScienceChristopher R. Clason Chapter 3: 'I cannot explain myself further on this matter': Maimon’s Perplexed DifferentialsJoshua WilnerPart II. Romantic Assembly of Music and the Stage Chapter 4: Bringing Universal Truths into Dialogue: Novalis on Leibniz’s Encyclopedistics and the Language of NatureAlexis B. Smith Chapter 5: Schlegel, Tieck, and Staël: Assembling Shakespeare as Weapon in the Napoleonic Culture WarsFrederick BurwickPart III. E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Romantic Assembly of the Senses Chapter 6: Romantic Reflections and Reconfigurations: Intertextual (Dis-)Assembly in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht’Christina Weiler Chapter 7: The Theatricality of Perception: Staging Aesthetic Education in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Des Vetters Eckfenster’Robert E. Mottram Chapter 8: Reassembling the Sensorium: Romantic Synaesthesia in Friedrich Schlegel’s Literary Theory and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s IntermedialityMargaret Strair

Robert E. Mottram is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Whitman College. Christopher R. Clason is Emeritus Professor of German at Oakland University. He is the editor of E. T. A. Hoffmann: Transgressive Romanticism (2018) and co-editor of Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (2020), Romantic Rapports: New Essays on Romanticism Across the Disciplines (2017) and Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia during the Romantic Era (2011).

‘For what is under review here is an outstanding scholarly achievement—a book of great clarity in thinking and presentation, of formidable, impeccable research, a monograph displaying sovereign command of her material as well as an enthusiasm that never obscures but always illuminates what it examines.’Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

• Part I. Romantic Assembly Across the Thresholds of Theory and DisciplineChapter 1: From the Fluid to the Crystal: Goethe’s Metamorphosis and Fichte’s Science of KnowingBeate Allert Chapter 2: Alexander von Humboldt, the Naturgemälde, and Ansichten der Natur: Assembling Nature between Sensuality and ScienceChristopher R. Clason Chapter 3: 'I cannot explain myself further on this matter': Maimon’s Perplexed DifferentialsJoshua WilnerPart II. Romantic Assembly of Music and the Stage Chapter 4: Bringing Universal Truths into Dialogue: Novalis on Leibniz’s Encyclopedistics and the Language of NatureAlexis B. Smith Chapter 5: Schlegel, Tieck, and Staël: Assembling Shakespeare as Weapon in the Napoleonic Culture WarsFrederick BurwickPart III. E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Romantic Assembly of the Senses Chapter 6: Romantic Reflections and Reconfigurations: Intertextual (Dis-)Assembly in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht’Christina Weiler Chapter 7: The Theatricality of Perception: Staging Aesthetic Education in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Des Vetters Eckfenster’Robert E. Mottram Chapter 8: Reassembling the Sensorium: Romantic Synaesthesia in Friedrich Schlegel’s Literary Theory and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s IntermedialityMargaret Strair