II78 Reviews title seems to emphasize rather than refute the political, and 'Schiller's standing as a national and trans-national figure' isannounced on theback cover as thebook's main focus but explicitly investigated inonly fiveessays (those by Francis Lamport, David Pugh, Jeffrey High, Maike Oergel, andMartin). Topics range from reinvestigations of Schiller's life (T. J. Reed on Schiller's friendshipwith Goethe, Norbert Oellers on Schiller as a 'hero' in adversity and his dramatic heroes), Schiller's relationship with his contemporary theatre scene (Lesley Sharpe), his role as his own editor (Jochen Golz), lesser-known aspects of his writing (Alexander Kosenina on his crime fic tion,Ritchie Robertson on the portrayal of Jesuits inhis plays) to various phases of Schiller's reception (Pugh on Schiller's reception after I848, Martin on his image in theThird Reich, Paul Bishop onWerner Deubel's view of Schiller). Over half of the essays are concerned with theauthor's poetic or dramatic works: his dramatic exposi tions (High) and endings (David Hill), his stage version ofEgmont (SteffanDavies), the use of language and gesture in his dramas (JohnGuthrie); the idea of national liberation in his late plays (Lamport); and Schiller's fragment 'Deutsche GroBe' (Oergel). The essays arewritten from a variety ofmethodological perspectives, from theunabashedly biographical to thehighly theoretical. Readers will appreciate theva rietyand quality of the articles assembled here, butmay miss a common denominator thatcould serve tounite these essays, turning thebook into something more cohesive than a volume of conference proceedings. None the less, the book achieves a good balance between the old and the new, between reconsiderations of past scholarship and investigations of topical, sometimes also theoretical, new ground. In its refutation of thepoliticized Schiller, thevolume, perhaps unwittingly, raises interesting questions that could well inform the next stage of Schiller myth-making. We might wonder, for example, what could replace Schiller's image as a 'national poet': what meanings might be attributed to a 'poet of nations' who is hardly read outside of Germany? Would thismean a search for the 'cosmopolitan' Schiller, en dowing him with a sense of tolerance and humanitarian sophistication similar to the characteristics commonly attributed to the 'cosmopolitan' Goethe? Or is this thepre lude to the quest for the 'real' Schiller, perhaps the ailing, frail, and penniless 'hero through adversity' who appears in some contributions in this volume? If Schiller as a national hero is an appropriation, could not the same be said, as Norbert Oellers already does in his essay, of Schiller the all-too-human hero-as-martyr? The one blind spot forwhich this otherwise excellent volume might be faulted is that in its disapproval of political appropriations of Schiller itdoes not recognize itsown focus on theauthor's 'achievement as a dramatist and poet', itsown unrelenting canonicity and sense of cultural authority, as profoundly political. But even if the context in which the book sees itself may invite some misgivings, the texts itassembles repre sent aworthy memorial to theauthor: nearly all arewell researched, informative, and engaging; some display a flairforthedramatic thatSchiller, accomplished entertainer thathe was, might well have appreciated. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON SUSANNEKORD Heine und dieNachwelt: Geschichte seinerWirkung inden deutschsprachigenLandern. Texte undKontexte, Analysen undKommentare, vol. I: I856-I906. Ed. by DIET MAR GOLTSCHNIGG and HARTMUT STEINECKE. Berlin: Schmidt. 2006. 7IO pp. ?79. ISBN 978-3-503-07989-6. In thevast discourse about Heinrich Heine, studies of his reputation constitute a sub stantial portion.We have reception studies ofHeine inEngland, Scotland, theUnited States, and Canada; inFrance, Italy,Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, MLR, 102.4, 2007 I "79 and Mexico; inDenmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and theNetherlands; inRus sia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the formerYugoslavia, the formerCzechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Albania, and Greece; in Israel, inHebrew and Yiddish, and in theAfrican and Arab countries; inChina, Japan,Korea, and Vietnam. What we have not had is a comprehensive overview ofHeine's reception in theGerman-speaking countries as itaccelerated from modest beginnings in the I86os. There is theverbatim reproduction of commentary onHeine inhis lifetime, Heinrich Heines Werk imUrteil seinerZeitgenossen (Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, I98I-2005), a project I have regarded from theoutset with scepticism because of itsungainliness and expense and which has recentlybeen completed, after a quarter of a century, by a...