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Salomon Gessner and Collins’s Oriental Eclogues
This essay contributes to the study of the reception of William Collins’s poems on the continent in the 18th century and introduces a little known German translation of Collins’s
Oriental Eclogues
by the Swiss poet, bookseller and engraver, Salomon Gessner. While focusing on the ways in which Gessner renders Collins’s eclogues into German, I shall contextualise the translation in terms of Gessner’s own theory of the idyll. It is through this reading of Collins as a writer of idylls, rather than as the author of the odes for which he was celebrated by the Romantics, that Gessner popularised the poet in Germany and Switzerland.
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Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Société Asiatique, 1822-1860
In the early nineteenth century, France clearly dominated Oriental studies in Europe. A decline of this dominance began with the \"Florist\" controversy, a debate from 1825 to 1829 over the aims of Oriental scholarship. This clash of methods almost tore the Soci t Asiatique apart and succeeded in setting Orientalist scholars in France on an exacting, scientific course that eclipsed the Romantic, literary roots out of which their studies had sprung. Ironically, the adoption of this new agenda inhibited the further growth of Oriental studies in France and was indicative of the relative decline of science there.
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