1st Edition
Anglo-German Interactions in the Literature of the 1890s
By Patrick Bridgwater
Copyright 1999
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a study of what the main "aesthetic" writers of late 19th-century Britain made of German literature, and of how Germany in turn reacted to them. The impact of Anglo-Scottish art nouveau in fin-de-siecle Austria and Germany made it predictable that Keats, Pater and Rossetti, among others, would be well received, but no one could have known in advance that by the time of their deaths,... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Germanism; 3: Oscar Wilde and Germany: Germany and Oscar Wilde; 4: William Meinhold and the English Novel; 5: A Pre-Raphaelite Cult Classic; 6: The Reception of Keats in Germany; 7: The Pre-Raphaelite Poets and Germany; 8: George Moore and Schopenhauer; 9: Masked Men: Nietzsche, Pater and Wilde
Biography
Patrick Bridgwater
