The Romantic Idea of a University : England and Germany, 1770-1850, PDF eBook

The Romantic Idea of a University : England and Germany, 1770-1850 PDF

Part of the Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories series

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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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