Shelley's German Afterlives: 1814-2000

ISBN-13: 9781403977502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 253 str.

Susanne Schmid

Opis

Winner of the 2008 Helene Richter Award Shelley's German Afterlives traces the German reception of P.B. Shelley over a time-span of nearly 200 years, considering material as diverse as anthologies, journals, biographies, poetic imitations, translations. If German readers of the 1830s and 1840s were initially fascinated by Shelley's life and death, interest in the lyrical and the political Shelley set in soon, too. "Men of England" became the model for one of the most popular German working class poems by Herwegh. In the context of the fin de siecle and of expressionism, Shelley's Faustian characters Cenci and Prometheus received acclaim."

Recenzje

"Susanne Schmid s Shelley s German Afterlives, 1814-2000 is a superbly thorough and perceptive examination...As an assessment of the legacy of Shelley and Romanticism that reaches across national boundaries and scrutinizes intercultural dialogue, Shelley s German Afterlives is an outstanding scholarly accomplishment and a model for comparative reception studies." - The Wordsworth Circle"This probing and substantial analysis of Shelley's reception in Germany is the first to trace the impact of his personal tragedy, his lyric force and his political passion on a variety of major writers and movements over two centuries, and serves as a model for comparative reception studies." - Dr Elinor Shaffer, FBA; Director, Research Project: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London

"Schmid's impressive monograph offers the first truly definitive account of Shelley's reception in Germany over the last two centuries. Drawing upon extensive research in English and German archival sources, Schmid persuasively argues that Shelley, the immaterial angel, left traces and imprints upon German literature and culture which endure to the present day. Both in its innovative methodology and in its concrete discoveries, this study breaks new ground and offers valuable insights to all readers of Romantic poetry." - James C. McKusick, Professor of English, The University of Montana"Shelley s German Afterlives constitutes a major, erudite scholarly recovery that is breath-taking in its scope. Schmid seamlessly melds together the bibliographical record; biographical adaptations; Shelley s reception among literary coteries, academic circles, and political radicals; translations of his writings both in Germany and Austria; and, again and again, his adoption as a mythic, transfigured poetic avatar whose multiple facets came to be revived generation after generation across the German-speaking world. In the end, this is a model history of how one national literary movement is absorbed into another, holding as great an import for German literary history as for a more localized concern with the abiding legacies of British Romanticism." - Stuart Curran, Vartan Georgian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

Spis treści

Immaterial Angel or Material Poet? The Textual Condition German Readers of Shelley The Lives of a Failed Martyr: Shelley and Biography Lyrical Shelley Revolutionary Shelley Faustian, Mystical, Parricidal: Shelley's Strong Selves

O autorze

SUSANNE SCHMID is Associate Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Frankfurt University, Germany.