Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories: England and Germany, 1770-1850

Hofstetter, M.

By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose. The romantics then presented them with a new one, a new Idea of a university. In Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and others stressed that universities must teach more effectively; in England, Coleridge and Wordsworth attached to the German Idea a desire to keep the universities part of England's national church.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-03-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333718889

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510739

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 162