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Faust

Contents

  • Preface

    The Text of Faust, Part I and Part II
  • Contexts
  • The Composition of Faust
  • Goethe on Faust: On the early composition of the drama (from Poetry and Truth, Books 10 and 12)
  • Preparing the Fragment in Rome (from the Italian Journey, Second Stay in Rome, March, 1788)
  • The Faust Plan of 1800
  • From Goethe’s Correspondence with Schiller (1794–1801)
  • Outline of Contents for Part II(1816)
  • Second Sketch for the Announcement of Helena(1827) o From Goethe’s Letters and from Conversations with Eckermann (1825–32)
  • Eugene Delacroix, Faust Illustrations
  • Criticism
  • Comments by Contemporaries
    • Wilhelm von Humboldt to his fiancée (June 1790)
    • Henrik Steffen, from his Autobiography
    • August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Review of Faust, A Fragment (1790)
    • Friedrich Schegel, [On Hamlet and Faust as Philosophical Tragedies], from his Essay on The Study of Greek Literature (1795) o Friedrich Schelling, [On Faust as Tragicomedy], from his Philosophy of Art and Related Writings (c. 1800–02)
    • George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel on Faust (from Phenomenology of Spirit, 1807, and Lectures on Aesthetics, 1835–9)
    • Mme. Germaine deStaël, Faustus (from On Germany, 1813)
    • Thomas Carlyle, from Edinburgh Review, 1822
    • Heinrich Heine, on Faust (from The Romantic School, 1833)
    • Margaret Fuller, from The Dial, July 1841
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson, from The Dial, October 1840
  • Modern Criticism
    • Stuart Atkins, Motif in Literature: The Faust Theme
    • Jaroslav Pelikan, Faust as Doctor of Theology
    • Benjamin Bennett, Interrupted Tragedy as a Structural Principle in Faust
    • Franco Morretti, Faust and the Nineteenth Century
    • Friedrich A. Kittler, The Scholar’s Tragedy: Prelude in the Theater o Neil M. Flax, The Presence of the Sign in Goethe’s Faust
    • Marc Shell, The Economics of Translation in Goethe’s Faust
    • Jane Brown, The Spirit of Water
    • Hans Rudolf Vaget, Act IV Revisited: A ’Post-Wall’ Reading of Goethe’s Faust
    • Marshall Berman, Goethe’s Faust: The Tragedy of Development
    • John Hollander, [Faust]
  • Selected Bibliography