Examines the influence of German Romanticism on Scottish historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), arguing that he saw it as a continuation of Goethe's efforts to combat Enlightenment rationalism. Finds external and internal evidence for his having read both major German literature and peculiar works including a philosophy of clothes and spiritual biographies. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An award-winning study by Rupert Christiansen (Paris Babylon, Prima Donna) of one of the most colorful and tumultuous periods in European history, as witnessed by its greatest writers.

The only short introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but music, art, religion, and philosophy.-publisher description.

Identifying six significant writers--Whitman, Dostoevsky, Rimbaud, Lewis Carroll, Proust and D. H. Lawrence--Katy Masuga examines their influence on Miller's work as well as Miller's retroactive impact on their writing. She explores four forms of intertextuality in relation to each 'ancestral' author: direct allusions, unconscious style, reverse influence and participation of the ancestral author as part of the story within the text. The study is informed by the theories of polyvocity from Bakhtin, Barthes and Kristeva and of language games and the indefatigability of writing in the work of Blanchot, Wittgenstein and Deleuze.By presenting Miller in intertextual context, he emerges as a noteworthy modernist writer whose contributions to literature include the struggle to find a distinctive voice alongside a distinguished lineage of literary figures.

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