Goethe as Cultural Icon: Intertextual Encounters with Stifter & Fontane

by Nancy Birch Wagner

The legacy of Goethe in the nineteenth century is familiar and fertile territory to literary scholars. In contrast with typical influence studies, which compare Goethe with his epigonal successors, this work breaks new ground in previously unappreciated areas and in several subtle forms. Focusing on two prominent and distinctly different nineteenth-century writers, the Austrian Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) and the Prussian-born Theodor Fontane (1819-1898),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820424722
• ISBN13: 9780820424729
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"