Abstract
In this article, I argue for the consideration of the Counter-Enlightenment engagement with Catholicism as an important yet mostly unexplored influence on the development of early Romantic theories of aesthetics, religion, and the characteristic intermingling of the two called Kunstreligion [art-religion]. I specifically trace the reception of a poem by the mystic Johann Kaspar Lavater and show how Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Ludwig Tieck, and Novalis portray a similar ecstatic synesthesia accompanying Catholic religious practices in their own works.
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