The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany
Subtitle: Mhra Texts And Dissertations (Bithell Series of Dissertations) (Bithell Series of Dissertations)
Publisher: Maney Publishing; Maney Pub. for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
Published: May 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781904350385
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Germany; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General; European - German
Description: "This is the first study to demonstrate the impact of Puritan literature on the development of German language and literature in the seventeenth century and beyond. It crosses boundaries of theology, literature, and the English and German traditions to show that eighteenth-century secular thinking on introspection, psychology and subjectivity has its roots in vocabulary used in Germany as early as 1665 through the translation of figures such as Daniel Dyke and Richard Baxter. The book concludes with insights on John Bunyan, whose works inspired writers of the 'Geniegeneration' such as Lenz, Weiland, Moritz and Jung-Stilling."--BOOK JACKET.