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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
List of illustrations
Frontispiece
1 Love
The Sufferings of Young Werther
Werther as confession?
‘This heart on fire’
Rome, Christiane Vulpius, and the creaking bed
Marriage: Elective Affinities
Sublimation
2 Nature
Goethe’s study of nature
Morphology
Geology
The doctrine of colours
Was Goethe a scientist?
Nature and literature: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
3 Classical art and world literature
Goethe and visual art
Classicism
The aesthetics of classicism
Classicism or Romanticism?
World literature
The West-Eastern Divan
4 Politics
The Holy Roman Empire
Weimar
The French Revolution
Politics in literature
Napoleon and the daemonic
5 Tragedy
Modern tragedy
Goethe’s tragic themes
Torquato Tasso
Faust: moving beyond tragedy
6 Religion
Goethe and the Enlightenment
Iphigenie in Tauris
Beyond good and evil
Earthly life
A chronology of Goethe’s life and works
Publisher’s acknowledgements
References
Translations and further reading
Index
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