Schelling’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Giles Whiteley is Reader in English Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is the author of Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism (2010) and, most recently, Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum: The Truth of Masks (2015).

“I recommend this book as an interesting and resourceful study to all scholars interested in Schelling and reception history, as well as to Coleridgeans and readers of Anglo-German reception in the Romantic and Victorian period.” (Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, The Coleridge Bulletin, Issue 56, 2020)“The chapters could easily be read as standalone articles, which makes the work a lot more accessible. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of literature and Romanticism, as well as those interested in the reception of German philosophy in Scotland and England in the nineteenth century.” (Lydia Azadpour, European Romantic Review, July 20, 2020)

• Chapter 1: Uncanny Echoes.- Chapter 2: Schelling’s Reception in British Romanticism, 1794-1819.- Chapter 3: Schelling’s Reception in Scotland, 1817-1833.- Chapter 4: The Plagiarism Controversy.- Chapter 5: Schelling in Berlin.- Chapter 6: The Victorian Literary Reception of Schelling.- Chapter 7: Schelling and British Theology.- Chapter 8: The Legacies of Naturphilosophie and British Science.- Chapter 9: Schelling and the British Universities.- Chapter 10: Schelling in British Mythological and Aesthetic Literature.- Chapter 11: Towards a Modern Reading of Schelling.- Index