This collection of 12 articles, published in honour of Professor Martina Lauster, examines patterns of knowledge in the nineteenth century in German literature, visual arts, science and culture, as well as in comparative studies and English. The articles, written in English and German, reflect Martina Lauster's wide interdisciplinary research interests, which run from 1800 to the beginning of the 20th century, and her special focus on the Vormärz period. Contents: Alexander von Humboldt and Flaubert - Reisende Frauen des Vormärz schildern Paris - Kleists Körperdarstellungen - Calderón and E.T.A. Hoffmann - Gutzkows ästhetische Verfahrensweise - Ernst Dronke's Berlin - Gothicised place and globalised space in Victorian Cornwall - Austrian military newspapers after 1868 - Ernst Steiger in Amerika - German theories of visual knowledge - Georg Hermanns Biedermeierwelt - Developments in the Romanian Banat.