1st Edition

Coleridge and Cosmopolitan Intellectualism 1794-1804 The Legacy of Göttingen University

By Maximiliaan van Woudenberg Copyright 2018
358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

358 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Viewing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's pursuit of continental intellectualism through the lens of cosmopolitanism, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg examines the so-called 'German Mania' of the writer in the context of the intellectual history of the university. At a time when the confessional model of Oxbridge precluded a liberal education in England, van Woudenberg argues, Coleridge's pursuit of continental... Read more

Introduction: What Did Coleridge Do in Göttingen?



1. Oxbridge and Göttingen: Confessional Provincialism and Cosmopolitan Intellectualism 



2. Full Child of my Own Brain: Planning the German Tour  



3. The Cosmopolitan Intellectualism of Göttingen    



4. Coleridge and the Göttingen Research Library    



5. Continental Research Processes and the Projected Life of Lessing  



6. Instant Failure and Delayed Success: Continental Intellectualism and the English Public Sphere, 1799-1804 





Conclusion: The Legacy of Göttingen

Biography

Maximiliaan van Woudenberg is College Professor in the Department of English and Communications at the Sheridan Institute of Technology, Canada.

"His thorough study, not least for its sheer wealth of hitherto inaccessible or undigested primary materials, is a considerable enrichment for any university library. ... Woudenberg's book also functions as an invaluable signpost for anyone researching this vital period in Coleridge's life, or with an interest in the ramifications of European cosmopolitanism and intellectualism around the turn of the century."

- Philipp Hunnekuhl, University of Hamburg

"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to all scholars of Coleridge and to those working on Romanticism and its Anglo-German associations."

- Roger Paulin, Trinity College, Cambridge

"This book puts “Göttingen and Coleridge” fully on the map; it is not only a vital contribution to Coleridge studies in itself but a prompt for further exploration of Coleridge beyond England."

- Heidi Thomson, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, European Romantic Review