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Author Farrelly, Dan

Title Between Myth and Reality : Goethe, Anna Amalia, Charlotte von Stein
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (137 pages)
Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONCLUSION; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary "In 2004 Ettore Ghibellino published his provocative thesis that Goethe's beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but the Dowager Duchess, Anna Amalia. Ghibellino claimed that Charlotte, the former lady-in-waiting of Anna Amalia, acted as a 'straw woman' and that the many letters, and the love they expressed, were really meant for Anna Amalia herself. Dan Farrelly, who translated Ghibellino's book, has been preoccupied Other this thesis since 2005. Here he has undertaken a meticulous re-reading of ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index
Subject Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Relations with women
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Correspondence
Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1739-1807.
Stein, Charlotte von, 1742-1827.
SUBJECT Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1739-1807 fast
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 fast
Stein, Charlotte von, 1742-1827 fast
Subject Authors, German -- 18th century -- Biography
Authors, German -- 19th century -- Biography
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Authors, German
Relations with women
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
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