Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schwartz, Peter J.

Titel

Eduard's Egotism: Historical Notes on Goethe's Elective Affinities

Ist Teil von

• The Germanic review, 2001, Vol.76 (1), p.41-68

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

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Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Schwartz connects Johann Goethe's novel "Elective Affinities" with the material dynamic of historical change that shaped the era during which Goethe wrote. "Elective Affinities" prefigures the tragedy of capitalist development Goethe wrote about in "Faust II," published two decades later. "Elective Affinities is Goethe's first full-scale attempt to recognize that progress is inevitable and that it will have a price.