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Viewing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's pursuit of continental intellectualism through the lens of cosmopolitanism, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg argues that Coleridge's pursuit of continental methodologies and networks anticipated the foundation of the modern von Humboldt research-university model.
List of contents
Introduction: What Did Coleridge Do in Göttingen?
1. Oxbridge and Göttingen: Confessional Provincialism and Cosmopolitan Intellectualism
2. Full Child of my Own Brain: Planning the German Tour
3. The Cosmopolitan Intellectualism of Göttingen
4. Coleridge and the Göttingen Research Library
5. Continental Research Processes and the Projected Life of Lessing
6. Instant Failure and Delayed Success: Continental Intellectualism and the English Public Sphere, 1799-1804
Conclusion: The Legacy of Göttingen
About the author
Maximiliaan van Woudenberg is College Professor in the Department of English and Communications at the Sheridan Institute of Technology, Canada.
Summary
Viewing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's pursuit of continental intellectualism through the lens of cosmopolitanism, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg argues that Coleridge's pursuit of continental methodologies and networks anticipated the foundation of the modern von Humboldt research-university model.
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"His thorough study, not least for its sheer wealth of hitherto inaccessible or undigested primary materials, is a considerable enrichment for any university library. ... Woudenberg's book also functions as an invaluable signpost for anyone researching this vital period in Coleridge's life, or with an interest in the ramifications of European cosmopolitanism and intellectualism around the turn of the century."
- Philipp Hunnekuhl, University of Hamburg
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to all scholars of Coleridge and to those working on Romanticism and its Anglo-German associations."
- Roger Paulin, Trinity College, Cambridge
"This book puts “Göttingen and Coleridge” fully on the map; it is not only a vital contribution to Coleridge studies in itself but a prompt for further exploration of Coleridge beyond England."
- Heidi Thomson, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, European Romantic Review
