Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Goethe's Das M?rchen: A New Myth of a Future Golden Age in a Nation of Memories
2.1 Summary and Background of Das M?rchen
2.2 A Comparative Discussion of Das M?rchen as a New Myth of a New Golden Age
2.3 Das M?rchen, a Nation of Memories, How Culture Remembers
2.4 Conclusion, and a Step Forward to Der Blonde Eckbert
Chapter Three Ludwig Tieck's Der Blonde Eckbert: A Forgotten Narrator and a Fallen Golden Age
3.1 From Individual Crisis to the Fall of a Bygone Golden Age
3.2 Forgetting as Memory in Der Blonde Eckbert
3.3 Der Blonde Eckbert and Its Young Author
3.4 Das M?rchen, Der Blonde Eckbert, and a Conclusion
Chapter Four The Juniper Tree by the Brothers Grimm: From the Image of an Apple to the Imagination of a German Nation-State
4.1 From Maps to Fairy Tales: Imagining a German Nation-State via Culture
4.2 What the Apple Saw: Guilt and Retribution in The Juniper Tree
4.3 The Mother, the Children, and the Father at the Dining Table
4.4 Conclusion
Chapter Five Conclusion
Bibliography
Index