Goethe and the English-speaking world
Subtitle: essays from the Cambridge symposium for his 250th anniversary
By: edited by Nicholas Boyle and John Guthrie.
Contributors: Boyle, Nicholas.; Guthrie, John, 1953-
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain -- Congresses.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Appreciation -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Knowledge -- Great Britain -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- In literature -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
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.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface vii; title: Abbreviations viii; title: Introduction: Goethe and England; England and Goethe; title: Nicholas Boyle 1; title: Part I: The English-Speaking World and Goethe:; title: Meetings and Influences; title: Wilhelm Meister Reads Shakespeare; title: Peter Michelsen 21; title: Goethe and Newton; title: H. B. Nisbet 35; title: "Ossian hat in meinem Herzen den Humor verdringt":; title: Goethe and Ossian Reconsidered; title: Howard Gaskill 47; title: Weimar Classicism's Debt to the Scottish Enlightenment; title: R. H. Stephenson 61; title: Faust's Pendular Atheism and the British Tradition of; title: Religious Melancholy; title: Matthew Bell 71; title: Goethe and Colonisation: the Wanderjahre and Cooper; title: Nicholas Saul 85; title: Johann Christian Hiittner (1766-1847):; title: a Link Between Weimar and London; title: Catherine W. Proescholdt 99; title: Destination Goethe: Travelling Englishmen in Weimar; title: Karl S. Guthke 111; title: Part II: Goethe and the English-Speaking World:; title: Reception and Resonance(s); title: The "Confessions" of Goethe and Coleridge:; title: Goethe's "Bekenntnisse einer Sch6nen Seele" and; title: Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit; title: E. S. Shaffer 145; title: The Winkworth Sisters as Readers of Goethe; title: in Mrs. Gaskell's Manchester; title: Peter Skrine 159; title: Goethe and American Literature:; title: The Case of Edith Wharton; title: Jane K. Brown 173; title: The Authority of Culture: Some Reflections; title: on the Reception of a Classic; title: James Simpson 185; title: Goethe's Orientalism; title: David Bell 199; title: What Gets Lost? A Look at Some Recent; title: English Translations of Goethe; title: John R. Williams 213; title: Goethe and Irish German Studies 1871-1971; title: Eda Sagarra 227.