Clouser, Robin A.
Love and Social Contracts

Goethe's 'Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten'.

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. 305 Seiten, gebunden (German Studies in America; Vol. 62/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar