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Rosemary Ashton The German Idea: Four English Writers and the Reception of German Thought, 1800-1860
0521225604 / 9780521225601
Ex Library, Very Good/Very Good 1980 Cambridge University Press Hardback, ISBN 0521225604, 245 + x pgs, Ex Library/Usual Stamps/Marks/Etc., Top Very Lightly/Bottom Little Cocked, 1 Bottom Corner Tiny Indent, Nice Green Boards/Spine/Gold Gilt, Page Tops/Bottoms Small Black Remainder Mark Line Near Spine/Tops Little Darkened/Library Name Stamp/Outsides Lighter/Bottoms Brighter/Page Edges Like Pages Themselves/Overleafs Little Age-Toned, Opens Little Wide Between Title/Preceding Pages But All Still Firmly Attached/Dedication Page 3 Small Pencil Library Notations/Small Black 80-99102 Stamp/Back Fly Card Envelope/Small Barcode Sticker Which Between Both/Little Bit Of Fly Have Big But Not Too Big W Written On Them/Back Pastedown Small Lightly Raised Line Bump Of Something Else Inside Tight + Clean Like Not Too Much Used/Read, Mylarusual DJ Glued To Pastedowns/Underlying DJ Nice/Mylar Usual Light Rubbing/Scuffing/Spine Call# Sticker, From Front Overleaf: This book is a study of the extent and nature of the British interest in German literature, criticism and philosophy between 1790 and 1860. Four important British authors - Coleridge, Carlyle, G. H. Lewes and George Eliot – emerge as central to the reception, understanding and diffusion of German ideas during the period. PP Dr Ashton begins with Coleridge, who, though discouraged by publishers, reviewers and friends, did much to combat the conventional notion of German literature (established in the 1790s in parodies of German literature) as dangerously immoral and willfully abstruse. Nevertheless his translation of Schiller's Wallenstein was not well received and he was dissuaded from translating Goethe's Faust because he feared attacks from the critics on the grounds of immorality. It was Carlyle who took up the cudgels and who, in a series of translations and authoritative, proselytizing essays, succeeded in attracting serious attention to German subjects, particularly Goethe. Lewes and George Eliot were two of the most important thinkers of a Victorian generation which inherited a positive Anglo-German culture created largely through the efforts of Coleridge and Carlyle. In their translations and reviews they continued the work of enlightening readers about the imaginative depth and range of German literature, philosophy and higher criticism of the Bible. PP Dr Ashton discusses how these four authors contributed to the spread of significant and influential German thought against a background of uninformed opinion and prejudice prevalent amongst readers, reviewers, publishers and editors of the time. In so doing, she has thrown a good deal of light on an important aspect of the history of nineteenth-century thought and increased our knowledge of the intellectual activities of four major British authors of the period., CONTENTS: Introduction, I Coleridge: Coleridge and Germany (1794-1800), Coleridge and Kant (1801-25), Coleridge and German 'aesthetics' (1802-18), Coleridge and Faust (1814-20), 2 Carlyle: Carlyle, the Germanist of the Edinburgh Review (1827), Carlyle and Goethe (1822-32), Carlyle and German philosophy (1824-34), Sartor Resartus, a beginning and an end (1830-4), 3 G.H. Lewes: Lewes: one of Carlyle's 'young men' (1835-9), Lewes and German aesthetics (1840-5), Lewes and German philosophy, Lewes and Goethe (1843-55), 4 George Eliot: George Eliot, translator of Strauss (1844-6), More translation: Spinoza and Feuerbach (1849-54), George Eliot and Goethe (1854-76), The pros and cons of the German genius, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index, Keywords: German Thought, German Literature, German Criticism, German Philosophy, 19th Century English Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature Criticism, 19th Century Thought, CLN00506
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