1st Edition

The Reception of Classical German Literature in England, 1760-1860, Volume 4 A Documentary History from Contemporary Periodicals

By John Boening Copyright 1977
644 Pages
by Routledge

644 Pages
by Routledge

644 Pages
by Routledge

The extensive scope of this collection means that this documentary record of the reception of German literature in England is a valuable scholarly resource. One of the most important features of British literary and intellectual history over the past 250 years is the influence of German literature. From the second half of the 18 th Century, through the first decades of the 19th, German books and... Read more

Part 2: Reviews of individual authors, excluding Goethe and Schiller, with volumes arranged chronologically by date of author’s birth

Volume 4: Introduction to Part 2: reviews of authors: Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698 – 1783), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766), Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), G. W. Rabener (1714-1771), C. F. Gellert (1715-1769), Ewald von Kleist (1715-1759), J. W. Gleim (1719-1803), Justus Möser (1720-1794), F. G. Klopstock (1724-1803), K. W. Ramler (1725-1798), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), Salomon Gessner (1730-1788), Friedrich Nicolai (1733-1811), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813), J. K. A. Musaeus (1735-1787), Matthias Claudius (1740-1815), Heinrich Jung-Stilling (1740-1817).

Biography

John Boening was Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the English Department at the University of Toledo, USA.