Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations. As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...

Set on the coast of Devon fifty years earlier, it traces the fates of two strong characters: Methodist preacher and shopkeeper Joshua Haggard and his daughter Naomi. In the opening scene, Joshua rescues Oswald Pentreath...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists...

It carries an epigraph from Goethe 's Sorrows of Young Werther about the advantages and disadvantages of middle-class society and its codes of conduct. The number of central characters here is higher than in AB

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

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.

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...