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For Many Readers In The English-speaking World, Goethe Is Somehow Separate From The European Intellectual And Literary Tradition. In This Unique And Wide-ranging Study, Matthew Bell Aims To Correct This View By Showing How Goethe Portrayed Human Beings As Part Of A Natural Continuum, Very Much In The Spirit Of The Enlightenment. Dr Bell's Fresh Readings Of Goethe's Major And Lesser-known Texts Are Set Against The Background Of The Science And Philosophy Of The Age, And The Writer's Debts To Other Thinkers Are Analysed. The Development Of Goethe As A Writer And Thinker Is Traced From His Sentimental Epistolary Novel Werther - Read In The Context Of The Rise Of Psychological Theory In The Enlightenment - To The Emergence Of His Own Theory Of 'empirical Psychology' In The Great Roman A Clef Of 1809, Die Wahlverwandtschaften. In A Major New Interpretation Of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Matthew Bell Follows The Ideal Of Organic Growth From The Novel's Origins In Enlightenment Optimism To Its Revision In An Atmosphere Of Post-revolutionary Scepticism. Placing Goethe In An Anthropological Context, Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology Demonstrates That Eighteenth-century Anthropological Thou

Author

Bell, Matthew Dr

Publisher

Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191673429

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Humanities