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essays from the Cambridge symposium for his 250th anniversary

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Camden House
Language
English
Pages
285

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Preface vii
Abbreviations viii
Introduction: Goethe and England; England and Goethe
Nicholas Boyle 1
Part I: The English-Speaking World and Goethe:
Meetings and Influences
Wilhelm Meister Reads Shakespeare
Peter Michelsen 21
Goethe and Newton
H. B. Nisbet 35
"Ossian hat in meinem Herzen den Humor verdringt":
Goethe and Ossian Reconsidered
Howard Gaskill 47
Weimar Classicism's Debt to the Scottish Enlightenment
R. H. Stephenson 61
Faust's Pendular Atheism and the British Tradition of
Religious Melancholy
Matthew Bell 71
Goethe and Colonisation: the Wanderjahre and Cooper
Nicholas Saul 85
Johann Christian Hiittner (1766-1847):
a Link Between Weimar and London
Catherine W. Proescholdt 99
Destination Goethe: Travelling Englishmen in Weimar
Karl S. Guthke 111
Part II: Goethe and the English-Speaking World:
Reception and Resonance(s)
The "Confessions" of Goethe and Coleridge:
Goethe's "Bekenntnisse einer Sch6nen Seele" and
Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
E. S. Shaffer 145
The Winkworth Sisters as Readers of Goethe
in Mrs. Gaskell's Manchester
Peter Skrine 159
Goethe and American Literature:
The Case of Edith Wharton
Jane K. Brown 173
The Authority of Culture: Some Reflections
on the Reception of a Classic
James Simpson 185
Goethe's Orientalism
David Bell 199
What Gets Lost? A Look at Some Recent
English Translations of Goethe
John R. Williams 213
Goethe and Irish German Studies 1871-1971
Eda Sagarra 227.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.
Sixteen of the 17 papers presented at a symposium held Sept. 22-25, 1999, at the University of Cambridge.

Published in
Rochester, NY
Series
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture, Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Genre
Congresses.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
831/.6
Library of Congress
PT2173.G7 G64 2002, PT2173.G7G64 2002, PT2173.G7 G64 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 285 p. ;
Number of pages
285

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3948381M
Internet Archive
goetheenglishspe0000unse
ISBN 10
1571132317
LCCN
2001037456
OCLC/WorldCat
48024677
Goodreads
1418780

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