The self as muse: narcissism and creativity in the German imagination, 1750-1830

Narcissism and the self: an introduction / Alexander Mathäs

Part I: Narcissism and the senses. Narcissism and the sublime / Alexander Mathäs;

Narcissism, the self, and empathy: the paradox that created modern literature / Fritz Breithaupt

Part II: Narcissism and morality. Self-reflection and knowledge of self in Hamann's early philosophical and aesthetic writings / F. Corey Roberts; Narcissistic investments and transformations in Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie and Über die Ehe / Ann Schmiesing; "Some day my prince will come": Fürstenspiegel and the bourgeois writer / Gail K. Hart

Part III: Over and against Freud. Werther's sentimental narcissism: consciousness, communication, and the origin of the modern psyche / Edgar Landgraf;

"I suffered and I loved": narcissism and abject desire in Goethe's "Confessions of a beautiful soul" / Susan Gustafson

Part IV: Reading and writing narcissism. Textual narcissism in Kleist's "Über das Marionettentheater" / Richard Block; That Specter in my name: writing and its mirror effects in Hoffmann and Poe / Martin Klebes.