Shelley's German Afterlives: 1814-2000 [Paperback]

Schmid shows how reception processes work across linguistic, national, and cultural boundaries, taking the English Romantic poet Shelley's German reception as a case study. It also highlights Anglo-German literary and cultural relations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and supplies a theoretical framework for further analysis.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

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. l2