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Literature and the Cult of Personality
- Author
- Maertz, Gregory
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : Columbia University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Contents
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Prelude Literature and the Cult of Personality: On Goetheâ#x80;#x99;s Influence in Britain; Chapter One Goethe and the Generation of 1789: Cultural Mediation and Literary Enfranchisement; Chapter Two Goethe, the Reception of Kant, and the Romantic Culture War in Britain; Chapter Three The Accidental Intermediary: Henry Crabb Robinson and the Translation of Goetheâ#x80;#x99;s Poetry; Interlude One Goethe and the Romantic Idealization of the Artist; Chapter Four Resistance and Concealment: Goethe and the Canonical British Romantic Poets. and Chapter Five Thomas Carlyle and the Imitatio GoetheInterlude Two Cultural Identity and the Transmission of Goethe in New England; Chapter Six The Failure of Romanticism and the Triumph of Realism in Middlemarch: Goethe and the Literary Formation of George Eliot; Postlude De-mythologizing Goethe: George Saintsbury and the Assertion of British Cultural Autonomy; Bibliography; Notes; Index.
- Subject(s)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832—Influence
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832—Appreciation—Great Britain
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832—Criticism and interpretation
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
- 1800-1899
- Romanticism—Europe
- English literature—German influences
- English literature—19th century—History and criticism
- Romantisme—Europe
- Littérature anglaise—19e siècle—Histoire et critique
- POETRY—Continental European
- Art appreciation
- English literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Romanticism
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 3838269810 (ebk)
9783838269818
3838210417
3838209818
9783838210414
9783838209814
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