LEADER 04778nam 22005537i 4500001 ssj0002069733 003 WaSeSS 005 20220112082112.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 180119t20172017gw sb 001 0 eng d 010 2017462726 020 9783838210414 |q(paperback) 020 3838210417 |q(paperback) 020 3838209818 020 9783838209814 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0002069733 040 YDX |beng |cYDX |dIPS |dHTM |dLTSCA |dBNG |dWTU |dOCLCF |dUBY |dUNL |dIUL |dU3G |dOHX |dINU |dGZN |dERASA |dDLC |dWaSeSS 042 lccopycat 043 e-uk---e------ 049 EREENEHH 050 00 PT2173.G7 |bM34 2017 082 04 831/.6 |223 100 1 Maertz, Gregory, |d1958- |=^A398393 245 10 Literature and the cult of personality |h[electronic resource] : |bessays on Goethe and his influence / |cGregory Maertz. 260 Stuttgart : |bibidem-Verlag, |c[2017] 300 x, 278 pages ; |c22 cm 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-263) and index. 505 0 Literature and the cult of personality: on Goethe's influence in Britain -- Goethe and the generation of 1789 : cultural mediation and literary enfranchisement -- Goethe, the reception of Kant, and the Romantic culture war in Britain -- The accidental intermediary : Henry Crabb Robinson and the translation of Goethe's poetry -- Goethe and the Romantic idealization of the artist -- Resistance and concealment : Goethe and the Canonical British Romantic poets -- Thomas Carlyle and the Imitatio Goethe -- Cultural identity and the transmission of Goethe in New England -- The failure of Romanticism and the Triumph of Realism in Middlemarch: Goethe and the literary formation of George Eliot -- De-mythologizing Goethe: George Saintsbury and the Assertion of British cultural autonomy. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 8 The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe?s authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of Literature and the Cult of Personality. Marginal as well as canonical writers and critics figured prominently in this process, and Literature and the Cult of Personality offers insight into the mediation activities of Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Crabb Robinson, the canonical Romantic poets, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and others. For women writers and Jacobins, Scots, and Americans, translating Goethe served as an empowering cultural platform that challenges the myth of the self-sufficiency of British literature. Reviewing and translating German authors provided a means of gaining literary enfranchisement and offered a paradigm of literary development according to which 're-writers' become original writers through an apprenticeship of translation and reviewing. 00In the diverse and fascinating body of critical writing examined in this book, textual exegesis plays an unexpectedly minor role; in its place, a full-blown cult of personality emerges along with a blueprint for the ideology of hero-worship that is more fully mapped out in the cultural and political life of twentieth-century Europe. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 600 10 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, |d1749-1832 |xAppreciation |zGreat Britain. |=^A20935 600 10 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, |d1749-1832 |xInfluence. |=^A20935 600 10 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, |d1749-1832 |xCriticism and interpretation. |=^A20935 650 0 Romanticism |zEurope. |=^A118009 650 0 English literature |xGerman influences. |=^A135514 650 0 English literature |y19th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A16134 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 856 40 |zFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=5276067 947 (OCoLC)ocn965764052 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 5785045