Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803: v.2 - Brossura

Boyle, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0199257515 ISBN 13: 9780199257515

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2003

Riassunto

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 volume: Goethe's harrowing experiences of the Revolutionary wars; the explosion of new ideas in philosophy and literature which he absorbed and aapted and which for ten years made Jena the intellectual capital of Europe; the political upheaval initiated by Napoleon which destroyed the Holy Roman Empire in which Goethe had grown up, and with it the cultural role he had envisaged for Jena and Weimar. Boyle vividly narrates both the large-scale events and the personal drama of this exciting time, to give lucid accounts of important thinkers whom English readers have hitherto found inaccessible, and to analyse in new ways Goethe's works of the period, notably Wilhelm Meister, The Natural Daughter, and Faust.

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Recensione:

A monumental biography ... beautifully wrought. (Financial Times)

A work of exemplary stature, presented with total grasp of detail. (T J Reed, The Guardian, Feb 2000)

A magnificent book ... an unparalleled portrait of the times as they touch on Goethe. Fascinatingly detailed and mastered. (The Independent)

L'autore:

Nicholas Boyle is Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History, and Head of the Department of German, at Cambridge University. He lives in the United Kingdom.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199257515
• ISBN 13: 9780199257515
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 988