Jane K. Brown is Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization Emerita at the University of Washington and author of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"A marvel of a book. Rich and forcefully argued, Goethe's Allegories of Identity gives us a remarkably illuminating view of Goethe's oeuvre that is drawn in clear, sharp lines." (David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago)

• PART I. THE PROBLEMChapter 1. Representing SubjectivityChapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on PassionChapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social ResponsibilityPART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITYChapter 4. The Theatrical SelfChapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in FaustChapter 6. The Narrative SelfPART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITYChapter 7. Goethe's AngstChapter 8. "Es singen wohl die Nixen": Werther and the Romantic TaleChapter 9. Goethe and the UncannyConclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional RegimeNotesWorks CitedIndex

Jane K. Brown is Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization Emerita at the University of Washington and author of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"A marvel of a book. Rich and forcefully argued, Goethe's Allegories of Identity gives us a remarkably illuminating view of Goethe's oeuvre that is drawn in clear, sharp lines." (David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago)

• PART I. THE PROBLEMChapter 1. Representing SubjectivityChapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on PassionChapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social ResponsibilityPART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITYChapter 4. The Theatrical SelfChapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in FaustChapter 6. The Narrative SelfPART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITYChapter 7. Goethe's AngstChapter 8. "Es singen wohl die Nixen": Werther and the Romantic TaleChapter 9. Goethe and the UncannyConclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional RegimeNotesWorks CitedIndex

Jane K. Brown is Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization Emerita at the University of Washington and author of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"A marvel of a book. Rich and forcefully argued, Goethe's Allegories of Identity gives us a remarkably illuminating view of Goethe's oeuvre that is drawn in clear, sharp lines." (David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago)

• PART I. THE PROBLEMChapter 1. Representing SubjectivityChapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on PassionChapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social ResponsibilityPART II. EXPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIVITYChapter 4. The Theatrical SelfChapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in FaustChapter 6. The Narrative SelfPART III. THE LANGUAGE OF INTERIORITYChapter 7. Goethe's AngstChapter 8. "Es singen wohl die Nixen": Werther and the Romantic TaleChapter 9. Goethe and the UncannyConclusion: Classicism and Goethe's Emotional RegimeNotesWorks CitedIndex