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Acknowledgements

Preface

Prelude Literature and the Cult of Personality: On Goethe’s Influence in Britain

Chapter One Goethe and the Generation of 1789: Cultural Mediation and Literary Enfranchisement

Chapter Two Goethe, the Reception of Kant, and the Romantic Culture War in Britain

Chapter Three The Accidental Intermediary: Henry Crabb Robinson and the Translation of Goethe’s Poetry

Interlude One Goethe and the Romantic Idealization of the Artist

The Importance of Wilhelm Meister

Effusive Responses

Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Wotton Reinfred

St. Leon and Frankenstein

Schopenhauer and Romantic Aestheticism

Chapter Four Resistance and Concealment: Goethe and the Canonical British Romantic Poets

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Shelley and Byron

Byron’s Creative Appropriation of Faust

Chapter Five Thomas Carlyle and the Imitatio Goethe

Interlude Two Cultural Identity and the Transmission of Goethe in New England

Chapter Six The Failure of Romanticism and the Triumph of Realism in Middlemarch: Goethe and the Literary Formation of George Eliot

Postlude De-mythologizing Goethe: George Saintsbury and the Assertion of British Cultural Autonomy

Bibliography

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