Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part I

Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche

Univ of California Press, Nov 26, 2024 - Literary Collections - 760 pages

In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist. Carlyle has long been credited with establishing the importance of new German writing in Britain at the time, and Essays on German Literature and Culture brings together his complete writings on the topic. This volume will be published in two parts. In the essays in part 1, Carlyle ranges broadly over German literature, much of it new to English-speaking audiences, and comments on three writers—Goethe, Richter, and Novalis—who profoundly influenced him.
 
In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the editions of each essay.

Contents

• Preface: ix
• Chronology of Carlyles Life: xi
• Introduction: xvii
• Note on the Text: xxxix
• Essays on German Literature: 1
• Notes: 339
• Works Cited: 511
• Textual Apparatus: 521
• Index: 693

About the author

Chris R. Vanden Bossche is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Carlyle and the Search for Authority and Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–1867 and editor of several volumes in this series of editions of Carlyle’s works. Paul E. Kerry, Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, has published a monograph on Goethe and edited books on Carlyle, Schiller, and Franklin. He is a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. Marylu Hill is a full teaching professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University. Her publications include "A Tale of a Table: Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and the Legacy of Thomas Carlyle" and Mothering Modernity: Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part I; Volume 7 of The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle
• Editor: Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2024
• ISBN: 0520409906, 9780520409903
• Length: 760 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers; History / Europe / Germany; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / European / German