Dilettantism and Its Values: From Weimar Classicism to the Fin De Siecle

by Richard Hibbitt

Overview

This book provides the first book-length comparative analysis of the concept of dilettantism. It shows how French nineteenth-century uses of the concept dissolved the Weimar Classicist distinction between dilettantism and art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367603861
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Series:	Studies in Comparative Literature , #9
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Hibbitt is Lecturer in Modern French Literature at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Note on the Text x

Introduction 1

1 The Etymology of the Term and its Initial Usage in German 6

2 The Dilettantism Project and the Question of Goethe's Dilettantism 31

3 Dilettantism between Weimar Classicism and the fin de siècle 62

4 The Dilettante as Sceptic: Paul Bourget's Initial Conception of Dilettantism 87

5 The Concept of Dilettantism in the 1880s 109

6 The Concept of Dilettantism in the 1890s 135

Conclusion 168

Bibliography 179

Index 187