Wagner, Nancy Birch: Goethe as Cultural Icon

Intertextual Encounters with Stifter and Fontane. Focusing on two prominent and distinctly different nineteenth-century writers, the book discovers the importance of Goethe's views on the visual arts to the realistic theorizing of both writers by deftly encompassing several seventeenth-century Dutch genre painters, as well as the nineteenth-century sculptor of the Brandenburg Gate in this sphere of aesthetic influence. Of particular interest to the study of Goethe's resonance are the role of George Henry Lewes's 1855 biography of Goethe and the reverberation of Goethe's concept of «Gegenständlichkeit», which are studied within the context of their writings and the era in general. 220 Seiten, gebunden (North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Culture; Vol. 17/Peter Lang Verlag 1994) Mängelexemplar/near mint