Wertherism

It fell in with that current of feeling which Carlyle called "Wertherism," and helped to swell it.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

These Carlyle has called "Wertherism" and "Götzism" [32] _i. e._ sentimentalism and mediaevalism, though so mild a word as sentimentalism fails to express adequately the morbid despair to which

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

For the Wertherism, _v.sup. _ on Chateaubriand, p. 24 note.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Of the fact, however, there is no doubt, that these two tendencies, which may be named Götzism and Wertherism, of the former of which Scott was representative with us, have made and are still in some quarters making the tour of all Europe.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

England, Scott became the foremost representative of "Götzism," and Byron of "Wertherism."

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

He was gifted with a burning natural eloquence, which, though perhaps a little too freely employed in exciting the 'Wertherism of the uncultivated,' had in it genuine power.

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

Goethe's little book the name and the thing Wertherism has received its "immortal _cachet_."

The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883

They were among the predisposing causes of Wertherism.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

The _Ossian_ craze illustrates the extension of historical interest, of which I have spoken, and the vague discontent of Wertherism.

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen 1868

A further turn from lexicography to romantic love could subject him to a hopeless seizure of Wertherism.

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