The German idea: four English writers and the reception of German thought, 1800-1860

[Coleridge]

Coleridge and Germany (1794-1800)

Coleridge and Kant (1801-25). Coleridge and German 'aesthetics' (1802-18). Coleridge and Faust and Faust (1814-20)

[Carlyle]

Carlyle, the Germanist of the Edinburgh Review (1827). Carlyle and Goethe (1822-32). Carlyle and German philosophy (1824-34). Sartor Resartus, a beginning and an end (1830-4)

[G. H. Lewes]

Lewes : one of Carlyle's 'young men' (1835-9). Lewes and German aesthetics (1840-5). Lewes and German philosophy. Lewes and Goethe (1843-55)

[George Eliot]

George Eliot, translator of Strauss (1844-6). More translation : Spinoza and Feuerbach (1849-54). George Eliot and Goethe (1854-76). The pros and cons of the German genius.