Search results: “"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"”

  • Manfred

    Manfred

    The quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero is accompanied in this edition by a substantial selection of contextual materials, including Byron’s original draft of the…

  • Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria

    Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria

    Mary Wollstonecraft wrote these two novellas at the beginning and end of her years of writing and political activism. Though written at different times, they…

  • Mathilda

    Mathilda

    Mary Shelley’s Mathilda, the story of one woman’s existential struggle after learning of her father’s desire for her, has been identified as Shelley’s most important…

  • Nightmare Abbey

    Nightmare Abbey

    This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless…

  • The Passion of Young Werther
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    The Passion of Young Werther

    First published in 1774, The Passion of Young Werther was a phenomenon, and had a profound influence on literature and culture on both sides of…

  • Vampire Literature

    Vampire Literature

    As Nina Auerbach argues in her introduction to Our Vampires, Ourselves, vampires are “personifications of their age.” Vampire Literature: An Anthology is the first anthology…