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Speaker Publications

A substantial body of scholarship on Anglo-German relations, the History of the Book, and Romanticism, has enriched our understanding of London and intercultural exchanges. This page provides a brief overview of a few selective publications by each of our colloquium speakers on this theme.

Catherine Angerson

'"A Friend to Rational Piety": The Early Reception of Herder by Protestant Dissenters in Britain', German Life and Letters 69.1 (2016).

Maike Oergel

Zeitgeist: How Ideas Travel Politics, Culture and the Public in the Age of Revolution, 2019.
'Constitutionalism and Cultural Identity as Revolutionary Concepts in German Political Radicalism 1806-1819: the Case of Karl Follen', Comparative Critical Studies, 2018.
'Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry, and Politics', in The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism, 2016.

James Raven

Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England, 2014.
The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850, 2007.
Lost libraries: the destruction of great book collections since antiquity, 2004.
London booksellers and American customers: transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811, 2002.
with Peter Garside and Rainer Schöwerling The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles. Volume II: 1800-1829, 2000.

Susan Reed

'"Wagner und kein Ende": German books for the 2013 Wagner bicentenary', German Studies Library Group Newsletter, 2013.
'Printing the Revolution: Berlin Broadsides from 1848', in The Book in Germany, 2010.
'German Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in 19th century Britain', Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain 1660-1914, 2007.

Elinor Shaffer

Series Editor of the The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe. 26 volumes. Including recent volumes on
- The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe
- The Reception of William Blake in Europe
'Coleridge's Dialogues With German Thought', The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2012.
'Shaping Victorian Biography', in Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography. Edited by Peter France and William St Clair, 115-134. 2002.
The Communities of Europe. Volume 15 of Comparative Criticism, 1993.
Literature and Science. Volume 13 of Comparative Criticism, 1991.
Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer, and Art Critic, 1988.
'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem. The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880, 1980.

James Vigus

'"You surely don't wish to cure Anglomania with Anglophobia": Henry Crabb Robinson's Debate on National Character and the English Reception of German Literature in the Neue Berlinische Monatschrift in 1803.', Angermion, 2016.
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy, edited by Klaus Vieweg, James Vigus and Kathleen M. Wheeler, 2013.
Henry Crabb Robinson: Essays on Kant, Schelling and German Aesthetics, 2010.

Maximiliaan van Woudenberg

Coleridge and Cosmopolitan Intellectualism. The Legacy of Göttingen University, 2018.
'The Göttingen Library Borrowings of English Matriculants, 1798-1801', The Library, 2016.
'The University of Göttingen and Anglo-German Interchange', 2015.

Last Updated: 11 December 2019