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99 See also: Candide 96–97 ■ The Sorrows of Young Werther 105 ■ Nachstücke 111 ■ Faust 112–15 ■ Jane Eyre 128–31 ■ Wuthering Hei ...

100 THERE IS NOTHING MORE DIFFICULT IN LOVE THAN EXPRESSING IN WRITING WHAT ONE DOES NOT FEEL LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (1782), P ...

101 The letters that form Laclos’ text are also objects in the plot, used to manipulate. Merteuil and Valmont, the orchestrating ...

THE DECAMERON (1353), GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Structured as a frame narrative, The Decameron by Italian writer, poet, and scholar Gio ...

RENAISSANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT in four volumes, Montalvo’s version recounts the story of Amadis— a handsome, valiant, yet gentle k ...

of five acts written in verse, and takes its subject matter from Greek mythology that had already been explored by the classical ...

RENAISSANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT (1749–1832), as an internationally acclaimed writer. Completed in just six frenetic weeks, Goethe’s ...

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T he late 18th century was a period of revolutionary change across Europe. The Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, had fostered the ...

Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman who evoked the spirit of humanitarian liberty, culminating in their call to go “back to na ...

110 See also: Songs of Innocence and of Experience 105 W illiam Wordsworth (1770–1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772– 1834) ...

111 See also: The Robbers 98–99 ■ The Sorrows of Young Werther 105 ■ Lyrical Ballads 110 ■ Faust 112–15 ■ Frankenstein 120–21 G ...

112 MAN ERRS TILL HE HAS CEASED TO STRIVE FAUST (1808, 1832), JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I t was not until shortly before his de ...

113 See also: Doctor Faustus 75 ■ The Robbers 98–99 ■ Les Liaisons dangereuses 100 – 01 ■ The Sorrows of Young Werther 105 ■ The ...

114 Schiller who insisted that Goethe should return to his work on Faust, a work he had begun in his 20s and later put aside. Th ...

115 Weimar’s Courtyard of the Muses, painted by Theobald von Oer in 1860, depicts Goethe (right, hand on hip) opposite Schiller ...

116 ONCE UPON A TIME... CHILDREN’S AND HOUSEHOLD TALES (1812–1822), BROTHERS GRIMM F olklore collections that synthesize into a ...

117 See also: One Thousand and One Nights 44–45 ■ Fairy Tales 151 ■ Kalevala 151 ■ The Bloody Chamber 332 ROMANTICISM AND THE RI ...

118 T he early to mid-18th century saw the rise of the novel and, a little later, the development of Romanticism in literature. ...