'A New Order of Things': Social and Cultural Transition in the Epistolary and Journalistic Networks of Heinrich von Kleist

A year before Prussia’s defeat at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806, the German writer Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) expressed his sense of the emergence of a ‘new order of things’ catalysed by Napoleonic expansionism in Europe. Over the following years, Kleist would respond to these political and cultural changes by assembling a series of…