Romantic Affinities : : German Authors and Carlyle; A Study in the History of Ideas /

Romantic Affinities : : German Authors and Carlyle; A Study in the History of Ideas / / Elizabeth M. Vida.

'And how he studied us Germans! He is almost more at home in our literature than we are ourselves.' (Eckermann, Coversations, 11 October 1892, as "ed in Romantic Affinities, p. 298). Carlyle saw German Romanticism as a continuation of Goethe's efforts to oppose the rationalistic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Vida, Elizabeth M.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Critical Inroads (Essays, German Romance)
  • PART ONE: FICTIONAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES IN GERMAN SOURCES (Sartor)
  • 2. Eccentric Originals and Their Editors
  • 3. The Idylls of Teufelsdröckh
  • 4. Spiritual Autobiographies, German Style
  • PART TWO: LEADING THEMES (Sartor, Heroes, Past and Present)
  • 5. A German Philosophy of Clothes
  • 6. Renunciation as a Way of Life
  • 7. 'Das Ewige Nein' and 'Das Ewige Ja'; Centre of Indifference
  • 8. Palingenesia or Newbirth of Society
  • PART THREE: STYLISTIC ASPECTS (Sartor)
  • 9. Jean Paul and No End
  • 10. Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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