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Author:   Charlotte Lee (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781316511039

ISBN 10:   1316511030
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   23 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Charlotte Lee; Part I. Life and Times: 1. The life Nicholas Boyle; 2. Frankfurt and Weimar Joachim Whaley; 3. Weimar court and society Astrid Köhler; 4. Goethe as civil servant Stephanie Galasso; 5. Class Matthew Bell; 6. The French revolution W. Daniel Wilson; 7. Religion Yael Almog; Part II. Literature: 8. Poetry Charlotte Lee; 9. Drama Thomas Martinec; 10. Prose Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge; 11. 'Faust' T. J. Reed; 12. 'Wilhelm Meister' Frederick Amrine; 13. Classicism Steffan Davies; 14. Romanticism Stefan Matuschek; Part III. Art: 15. Greek and Roman art Katherine Harloe; 16. Goethe's drawings Petra Maisak; 17. Goethe the collector Catriona MacLeod; 18. Goethe and the invention of the Weimar landscape Liliane Weissberg; Part IV. Philosophy and Science: 19. Goethe and philosophy Willi Goetschel; 20. Goethe's improper mode of thought Clark S. Muenzer; 21. Goethe and German idealism Gabriel Trop; 22. Morphology Claudia Nitschke; 23. Colour theory Gerhard Lauer; 24. Geology Jennifer Caisley; Part V. World Cultures: Inspiration and Reception: 25. Italy Grazia Pulvirenti and Renata Gambino; 26. Britain Anne Bohnenkamp; 27. France Robert Vilain; 28. Iran Amir Irani-Tehrani; 29. China Johannes D. Kaminski; 30. America Daniel Carranza; 31. Weltliteratur (world literature) Angus Nicholls; Part VI. Goethe's Lasting Significance: 32. Faust and modernity Michael Jaeger; 33. Goethe's portrayal of love: family, same-sex, and non-exclusive Susan E. Gustafson; 34. Goethe and the musical world Mark Austin; 35. Goethe and our endangered natural world Heather I. Sullivan; 36. Goethe out of context postscript: oracle bones Frederick Amrine.

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Charlotte Lee is Associate Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. She is the author of The Very Late Goethe: Self-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing (2014) and the editor of German Romantic Poetry for Everyman's Library (2024). She has published widely on the period around 1800, is co-editor of Publications of the English Goethe Society and is on the editorial board of the Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts. She is currently finishing a study of the relationship between poetry and movement.

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