Goethe and the English-Speaking World

James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.

• Introduction: Goethe and England; England and Goethe - Nicholas BoyleWilhelm Meister Reads Shakespeare - Peter MichelsenGoethe and Newton - H. B. Nisbet"Ossian hat in meinem Herzen en Humor verdrängt": Goethe and Ossian Reconsidered - Howard GaskillWeimar Classicism's Debt to the Scottish Enlightenment - Faust's Pendular Atheism and the British Tradition of Religious Melancholy - Matthew BellGoethe and Colonisation: the Wanderjahre and Cooper - Nicholas SaulJohann Cristian Hüttner (1766-1847): a Link Between Weimar and London - Catherine ProescholdtDestination Goethe: Travelling Englishmen in Weimar - Karl S. GuthkeThe "Confessions" of Goethe and Coleridge: Goethe's "Bekenntnisse einer Schönen Seele" and Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquiring SpiritConfessions of an Inquiring Spirit - Elinor ShafferThe Winkworth Sisters as Readers of Goethe in Mrs. Gaskell's Manchester - Peter SkrineGoethe and American Literature: The Case of Edith Wharton - Jane K. BrownThe Authority of Culture: Some Reflections on the Reception of a Classic - James SimpsonGoethe's Orientalism - David BellWhat Gets Lost? A Look at Some Recent English Translations of Goethe - John R. WilliamsGoethe and Irish German Studies 1871-1971 - Eda Sagarra

An unusually substantial set of essays... Several present important research in compressed form, and will be valuable reference points. Beyond that, the volume presents a picture of Goethe's response to the English-speaking world ... with many new and intriguing emphases.