Love and Social Contracts: Goethe's «Unterhaltungen Deutscher Ausgewanderten» (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783261043504)

A key work in understanding the mature Goethe, Conversations among German Refugees is here explicated as an organic whole rather than fragmentarily. This study gives an orientation to the many changes in Goethe's life in the decade prior to its writing, offers thorough textual comparisons with the French sources, and comprehensively treats previous scholarship. More than just the beginning of a new German genre, the Conversations represents Goethe's social commentary on his times, including the French Revolution and the problematic relationships between men and women. Individual tales, the Fairy Tale , and the frame are newly interpreted.

Author: Katharina Mommsen,Robin A. Clouser
ISBN-10: 3261043504
ISBN-13: 9783261043504
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1991
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover