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Goethe Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803

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ISBN-10: 0198158696

ISBN-13: 9780198158691

Edition: 2000

Authors: Nicholas Boyle

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In this, the second volume of Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Nicholas Boyle covers the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution, which turned his life upside down, and of the German philosophical revolution which ushered in the periods of Idealism and Romanticism. It was also a period dominated by two intense personal relationships: with Schiller, Weimar's other great poet, philosopher, and dramatist, and with Christiana Vulpius, the mother of his son. Goethe was a poet of supreme intelligence and sensitivity living through political and intellectual changes which have shaped the modern world. The transition into modernity is the theme of this…    
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Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/13/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 968
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 2.50" tall
Weight: 3.388
Language: English

List of Illustrations
The Age of Revolution
France from Monarchy to Nation: 1790-1793
German Revolutions
The Kantian System
'The Spirit of the Time': Post-Kantian Germany to 1793
'A Revolution for Me Too' (1790-1793)
In the Doldrums: 1790-1792
'Quorum pars minima fui': August-December 1792
The Siege of Mainz: December 1792-August 1793
Works, 1790-1793
A Meeting of Minds (1793-1794)
Terrorists and Migrants: France and Germany, 1793-1795
Waiting for the Sun: August 1793-May 1794
Aesthetic Educations: June-December 1794
'My old novel'
Fictions and Riddles (1795)
Good Muses in Jena: January-June 1795
'Some few select circles': The First Year of the Horae
Secrets of the Self: June-December 1795
'A strange instinct': Works, 1795
The Great Moment (1796)
General Bonaparte Intervenes: January-July 1796
Wilhelm Meister, Concluded
A Peculiar Revolution: Summer 1796
Between Realism and Idealism: Works, 1796
Paradise Renounced (1796-1797)
The Turning Tide: September 1796-March 1797
Faust or Italy?: April-July 1797
Last of the Homerides: Works, 1796-1797
A Journey and Non-Journey: August-November 1797
The New Century (1798-1800)
Alarums Without; the Universe Within
Redefining the Public: December 1797-August 1799
The Old Time and the New: August 1799-December 1800
The Spirit of Beauty and its Fate: Works, 1798-1800
'What You Were is Gone' (1801-1803)
Greeks No More: January 1801-August 1802
Things Fall Apart: August 1802-August 1803
Revolution and Renunciation: Works, 1801-1803
Works Cited in the Notes
Notes
General Index
Index of Goethe's Works