Gregory Maertz: 1 book
Literature and the Cult of Personality
Essays on Goethe and His Influence
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe's authority, a previously hidden chapter in the...
