The Modern Language Review, January 1st, 2003
The reception of Goethe's novel 'Die Wahlverwandtschaften' ('Elective Affinities') in 19th-century Britain is discussed, with a focus on the work of James Anthony Froude. Froude's 1849 novel 'The Nemesis of Faith,' based on Goethe's work, was publicly burnt at Oxford in 1849; Froude's translation of 'Die Wahlverwandtschaften' was published anonymously in 1854. How the scientific notions underlying Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften acquired new meanings in the English context of the theological, philosophical, and political mid-nineteenth-century debate about the future of the Anglican Church ...
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