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Walter Pater
(1839-94)
English critic
 1 other title

Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
German philosopher
 1 other title

Legenda: Oxford, 1999
£35.00 ($65.00 US)  Paperback  286pp
ISBN: 1-900755-24-6

What did the main ‘aesthetic’ writers of late nineteenth-century Britain make of German literature, and how in turn did Germany react to them? The impact of Anglo-Scottish art nouveau in fin-de-siècle Austria and Germany made it predictable that Keats, Pater and Rossetti, among others, would be well received, but no one could have known in advance that by the time of their deaths Swinburne and Wilde would be more highly regarded in Germany than in Britain. Bridgwater’s lucid and thoroughly documented study casts new light on the central cultural issues of the day, including ideas of morality, truth and subjectivism in art, comparing Pater and Wilde with Nietzsche, and George Moore, that chameleon of the decadent nineties, with Schopenhauer.

Patrick Bridgwater, Emeritus Professor of German in the University of Durham, is known for his books on Anglo-German literary relations, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kafka and Expressionism.