Mignon's Afterlives: Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century

by Terence Cave

By tracing the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Terence Cave explores a phenomenal success story in the history of literature and music, and more broadly of cultural history. Mignon steps out of the shadow of its protagonist Wilhelm and fashions a destiny of her own: she becomes the object of an obsessive interest that reached its peak in the later nineteenth century but continues to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199604800
• ISBN13: 9780199604807
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"