Goethe and the English-speaking world [Texte imprimé] : essays from the Cambridge symposium for his 250th anniversary / edited by Nicholas Boyle and John Guthrie

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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