Cousins at One Remove

Published by Northern Universities Press

Anglo-German Studies 2

This set of essays is a sequel to Anglo-German Studies published in 1992 by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Both sets of essays are closely connected with the work of the Leeds University MA programme in Anglo-German Cultural Relations and many of the contributors are, or have been, on the teaching staff of the Leeds University Department of German.

The nine essays of the 1992 volume explored aspects of the German reception of English literary ideas, whereas the emphasis in the present volume is on the English reception of German literature.

Contents

• Schiller, Kleist and Wagner — A great British tradition? Fred Bridgham 
• A Romantic in Ratzeburg: Coleridge's debt to North German 'Provinz' Ingo Cornils 
• William Poel's "Wallenstein" — Moment Joyce Crick 
• 'Our wretched German cousins': A. R. Orage and Germany Diane Milburn 
• Mephisto in modern English guise Richard F. M. Byrn 
• Shakespeare into Celan: Sonnets 1, 105 and 107 Raymond Hargreaves 
• Rewriting, re-cycling: Friedrich Dírrenmatt and "The Tragedy of King John" Sydney G. Donald 
• Josephine Butler's campaign against the double moral standard, and its repercussions in Germany Ingrid Sharp 

Three letters to Jethro Bithell, from the correspondence held in the Brotherton Library Bithell Collection:

• From Alfred Mombert, 6.9.1909, edited by Susan Bollinger 
• From Franz Werfel, 4.4.1940, edited by John Hogg 
• From Hans Carossa, 9.5.1949, edited by Claire Harder

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