The Anti-Jacobin Reaction against German Drama and Philosophy in Britain, 1798-1804

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作者
Angerson, Catherine [1 ]
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[1] Birkbeck Univ London, London, England
关键词
The Rovers; or; the Double Arrangement; Anti-Jacobin; Weekly Examiner; Anti-Jacobin Review; Anglo-German relations; conservative transmission of German ideas; George Canning; John Gifford; James Walker; Goethe; Kotzebue; Fichte; Kant; Herder;
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10.1080/09593683.2023.2212444
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I3/7 [各国文学];
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摘要
George Canning and John Hookham Frere's satire on German plays and their radical English readers, The Rovers; or, The Double Arrangement (1798), marked the beginning of a short period of intense engagement with German drama and philosophy in the conservative periodical press in Britain. The Rovers appeared in the Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner, a magazine written largely by Foreign Office politicians. The Anti-Jacobin's monthly successor, the Anti-Jacobin Review, mounted a more earnest attack on German philosophy, and its contributors introduced some of the ideas of Fichte, Kant, and Herder to a conservative Anglican and Scottish Episcopalian readership. This article shows that some contributions display signs of extreme paranoia and exaggeration inspired by Jacobin-Illuminati conspiracy theories, while others demonstrate a considerable knowledge of the German books and ideas that they are attacking.
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页码:112 / 131
页数:20
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