Lesley Sharpe is Professor of German at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Schiller and the Historical Character and Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics (Cambridge, 1991). She has written widely on Schiller, Goethe and women writers of the eighteenth century and from 1994-2000 was Germanic Editor of the Modern Language Review.
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction Lesley Sharpe
1. The world Goethe lived in: Germany and Europe, 1750-1830 Thomas P. Saine
2. Goethe the writer and literary history Nicholas Saul
3. Goethe the poet John R. Williams
4. Goethe the dramatist David V. Pugh
5. Faust Jane K. Brown
6. Weimar Classicism: Goethe's alliance with Schiller T. J. Reed
7. Goethe and the Weimar theatre Lesley Sharpe
8. Goethe's prose fiction Martin Swales
9. Autobiographical writings Dennis F. Mahoney
10. In defence of experience: Goethe's natural investigations and scientific culture Daniel Steuer
11. Goethe and gender Barbara Becker-Cantarino
12. Goethe and the visual arts Beate Allert
13. Goethe and the political world W. Daniel Wilson
14. Religion and philosophy H. B. Nisbet
15. Reception in Germany and abroad Gerhart Hoffmeister
A guide to further reading
General index
Index of Goethe's works.
