Goethe's Narrative Fiction: The Irvine Goethe Symposium

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Goethe the Novelist -- Goethe als Novellist -- Greatness, Saintliness, Usefulness Character Configurations in Goethe's Oeuvre -- Werthers Leiden an der Literatur -- The Theatrical Mission of the Lehrjahre -- Geheime Lenkung. Zur Turmgesellschaft in Goethes Wilhelm Meister -- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and the Poetic Unity of the Novel in Early German Romanticism -- Analogies for Love: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften and Plato's Symposium -- Views from the Summerhouse: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and its Literary Successors -- Revolutionary Realism in Goethe's Wanderjahre -- Tensions in Goethe's Novelle -- Goethe's Novel, Campagne in Frankreich -- Register -- Backmatter