Literature and the Cult of Personality : Essays on Goethe and His Influence.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Prelude Literature and the Cult of Personality: On Goethe'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 Goethe's Poetry -- Interlude One Goethe and the Romantic Idealization of the Artist -- Chapter Four Resistance and Concealment: Goethe and the Canonical British Romantic Poets -- Chapter Five Thomas Carlyle and the Imitatio Goethe -- Interlude 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.

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