The first book to examine Goethe's writings on the daemonic in relation to both Classical philosophy and German Idealism. For Plato, the daemonic is a sensibili

Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literary celebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishin

Questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda, of how to render account of catastrophes and reconcile oneself with one's past are not only crucial to

This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless creations: Pyg

This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology with the irr