An edition of Goethe and the English-speaking world
(2001)
Goethe and the English-speaking world
essays from the Cambridge symposium for his 250th anniversary
by Nicholas Boyle and Guthrie, John
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Goethe and the English-speaking world: essays from the Cambridge symposium for his 250th anniversary
2002, Camden House
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Goethe and the English-Speaking World: A Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
October 1, 2001, Camden House
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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.
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