Main currents in nineteenth century literature
Georg Brandes (Author), Diana White (Translator), Mary Morison (Translator)
Criticism, interpretation, etc
6 volumes : frontispieces, portraits, plates ; 23 cm
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I. The emigrant literature
II. The romantic school in Germany
III. The reaction in France
IV. Naturalism in England
V. The romantic school in France
VI. Young Germany. Volume I, The emigrant literature. Introduction
Chateaubriand
Rousseau
Werther
René
Obermann
Nodier
Constant: "On Religion"-"Adolphe"
Madame de Staèl: "Delphine"
Exile
"Corinne"
Attack upon National and Protestant Prejudices
New Conception of the Antique
De L'Allemagne
Barante
Conclusion. Volume II, The Romantic School in Germany. Introduction
The Pioneers of Romanticism
Hölderlin
A.W. Schlegel
Tieck and Jean Paul
Social Endeavours of the Romanticists: Lucinde
Romantic Purposelessness
"Lucinde" in Real Life
Schleiermacher's Letters
Wackenroder: Romanticism and Music
Attitude of Romanticism to Art and Nature
Romantic Duplication and Psychology
Romantic Soul, Novalis
Longing, "The Blue Flower"
Arnim and Brentano
Mysticism in the Romantic Drama
Romantic Literature and Politics
Romantic Politicians. Volume III, The Reaction in France. Introduction
The Revolution
The Concordat
The Principle of Authority
Le Génie du Christianisme
Joseph de Maistre
Bonald
Chateaubriand
Madame de Krüdener
Lyric Poetry: Lamartine and Hugo
Love in the Literature of the Period
Dissolution of the Theoretical Principle of Authority
Dissolution of the Practical Principle of Authority
Culmination and Collapse of the Reaction
Conclusion. Volume IV, Naturalism in England. Common Characteristics of the Period
National Characteristics
The Political Background
The Beginnings of Naturalism
Strength and Sincerity of the Love of Nature
Rural Life and its Poetry
Naturalistic Romanticism
The Lake School's Conception of Liberty
The Lake School's Oriental Romanticism
Historical Naturalism
All-embracing Sensuousness
The Poetry of Irish Opposition and Revolt
Erotic Lyric Poetry
The British Spirit of Freedom
Republican Humanism
Radical Naturalism
Byron: The Passionate Personality
Byron: His Self-Absorption
Byron: The Revolutionary Spirit
Comic and Tragic Realism
Culmination of Naturalism
Byron's Death
Conclusion. Volume V, The Romantic School in France. The Political Background
The Generation of 1830
Romanticism
Charles Nodier
Retrospect: Foreign Influences
Retrospect: Indigenous Sources
De Vigny's Poetry and Hugo's "Orientales"
Hugo and De Musset
De Musset and George Sand
Alfred de Musset
George Sand
Balzac
Beyle
Mérimée
Beyle and Mérimée
Mérimée
Mérimée and Gautier
Théophile Gautier
Sainte-Beuve
Saint-Beuve and Modern Criticism
The Drama: Vitet, Dumas, De Vigny, Hugo
Literature in its Relation to the Social and Political Movements of the Day
The Overlooked and Forgotten
Conclusion. Volume VI, Young Germany. The Political Background
Philosophy and Reaction
Spirit of the Opposition
Influence of the Revolution of July
Influence of Byron
Value of the New Literature
Börne
Heine
Heine and Goethe
Heine
Literature and Party
Immermann
Hegelianism
Young Germany and Menzel
Gutzkow, Laube, Mundt
Rahel, Bettina, Charlotte Stieglitz
Frederick William IV of Prussia
The Neutral Literature
Political Poetry, Philosophical Revolution
Revolutionary Poetry
The Revolution
Conclusion
Complete Index to the Six Volumes
Printed in Great Britain
The Danish original was published 1872-1890 under title: Hovedstrømninger i det 19de aarhundredes litteratur
Vols. I, II and V, translated by Diana White and Mary Morison; vols. III, IV and VI, by Mary Morison