Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...

More takes a sceptical view of sensibility: she reproves both the representation of it in Goethe 's Werther (which had been available in English for about three years) and the sentimental enthusiasm which the book...

Set largely in Laffan's home town of Dublin, Hogan, M.P. captures an Ireland whose growing Catholic middle class is challenging the long empowered Protestant ascendancy. The action takes place three or four years before...

LMA 's Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustian novel A Modern Mephistopheles was published in 1877. Its title had originally belonged to her sensation novel, A Long and Fatal Love Chase, which was posthumously published in 1995.

Inspired by the spirited correspondence between Goethe and Bettina von Arnim , EA (as the author of Elizabeth and her German Garden) published Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

CS 's original poems express her deeply unhappy feelings. With them she included translations from Petrarch and (in verse) of passages from Goethe 's Werther. She added notes to the translations.

Tributes of Affection concludes with three ballads, some verse letters exchanged between EST and her brother in the personae of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Charlotte and Werter, and two fables by EST (The Rat who had Retired from...

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

Syndy Conger has noted that this novel reveals a shift in Smith's attitude to sensibility in the four years since her sonnets: where she was enthusiastic she is now sceptical, even satirical, in her stance...

Goethe was so impressed with this essay that he translated it into German.

Neilson detected Werterism in HC 's poems: a tragic sentimentality and preference for suicidal and murderous subjects, which conformed to a current mode even if it was not in fact a direct response to Goethe .

Rossetti deeply admired this picture, which was Pre-Raphaelite in technique, showing a woman in mourning pose in sunlight, and was inspired by Goethe 's Faust. Howitt's paintings generally focused on melancholy female subjects or...

In 1814, TC left the University of Edinburgh and started teaching, taking up a position at Annan Academy . He returned to Edinburgh in 1819 to pursue his literary aspirations. While there, he also worked...

The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman , head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society , criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which...