"The highpriest of pessimism"
Subtitle: zur Rezeption Schopenhauers in den USA
By: Christa Buschendorf.
Series: American studies -- v. 160; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 160.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783825354596
Subjects: Schopenhauer, Arthur, -- 1788-1860 -- Influence; German literature -- Appreciation -- United States; Philosophy, American -- 19th century; American literature -- German influences; Pessimism -- United States -- History; Pessimism in literature; United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918
Notes: Facsims. on endpapers.

Revision of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-330) and index.