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Goethe and the English-Speaking World: A Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Goethe and the English-Speaking World: A Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)


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New studies of both Goethe's relationship to the English-speaking world and its perception of Goethe and his works. Goethe's relations with the English-speaking world have been the subject of scholarly investigation ever since his lifetime. This volume brings together eighteen articles that provide new points of view, a broad range of approaches, and new and original findings on this relationship. These range from the discussion of applications of recent critical approaches such as chaos theory and Edward Said's Orientalism to Goethean texts, through other more empirical contributions that bring to light new material, some of it deriving from archives in Weimar relating to Goethe's contact with English culture. Other essays involve the reassessment of questions of influence, from both sides: inthe case of Cooper and Goethe some standard assumptions are revised, while in the case of Goethe and Edith Wharton and Goethe and George Eliot, new comparative ground is broken. Close readings of portions of well-known texts suchas Faust and Wilhelm Meister challenge standard assumptions. The analysis of selected recent translations of Goethe's poetry raises perennial questions of cultural transfer, while the survey of the role played by some of Goethe's texts in one corner of the English-speaking world, Dublin, is long overdue. Nicholas Boyle is Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History, Head of the Department of German in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College. John Guthrie is College Lecturer in German and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at New Hall, Cambridge.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Goethe and England; England and Goethe - Nicholas Boyle Wilhelm Meister Reads Shakespeare - Peter Michelsen Goethe and Newton - H. B. Nisbet "Ossian hat in meinem Herzen en Humor verdrängt": Goethe and Ossian Reconsidered - Howard Gaskill Weimar Classicism's Debt to the Scottish Enlightenment - Faust's Pendular Atheism and the British Tradition of Religious Melancholy - Matthew Bell Goethe and Colonisation: the Wanderjahre and Cooper - Nicholas Saul Johann Cristian Hüttner (1766-1847): a Link Between Weimar and London - Catherine Proescholdt Destination Goethe: Travelling Englishmen in Weimar - Karl S. Guthke The "Confessions" of Goethe and Coleridge: Goethe's "Bekenntnisse einer Schönen Seele" and Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquiring SpiritConfessions of an Inquiring Spirit - Elinor Shaffer The Winkworth Sisters as Readers of Goethe in Mrs. Gaskell's Manchester - Peter Skrine Goethe and American Literature: The Case of Edith Wharton - Jane K. Brown The Authority of Culture: Some Reflections on the Reception of a Classic - James Simpson Goethe's Orientalism - David Bell What Gets Lost? A Look at Some Recent English Translations of Goethe - John R. Williams Goethe and Irish German Studies 1871-1971 - Eda Sagarra

About the Author :
James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.

Review :
An unusually substantial set of essays... Several present important research in compressed form, and will be valuable reference points. Beyond that, the volume presents a picture of Goethe's response to the English-speaking world ... with many new and intriguing emphases. The ... collection of papers is consistently learned, informative, insightful, enlightening. The essays ... succeed in demonstrating the value of an intercultural approach to Goethe, in recognition both of his global significance and of his conception of 'world literature. The collection, free of jargon, carefully documented and generally on the cutting edge of research, could also be recommended to non-specialists looking for an accessible overview of how Goethe has been and is being seen in the Anglo-American world.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781571132314
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Camden House Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 293
  • Sub Title: A Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1571132317
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
  • Weight: 628 gr


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