1st Edition

Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust An Epic Connection

By Ben Hewitt Copyright 2015
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on an exciting moment in the history of Anglo-German literary exchange in the Romantic period, the moment of George Gordon Byron's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's interrelated encounters with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's seminal dramatic poem, Faust.

    Introduction: An Epic Connection Part I: Perspectives on Goethe’s Faust 1. ‘Eine Tragödie’? Goethe’s Faust in Theory 2. Faust I in Romantic-period Britain Part II: Byron, Shelley, and Faust 3. Infernal Irony: Faust, Cain, and Byron's Later Poetry 4. The Un-Faustian Epic: Faust and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound 5. Conclusion: Between Two Worlds

    Biography

    Ben Hewitt