Book of Donmon Teith

Reconsiders the role played by mimesis - and by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister as a mimetic work - in the novels of Early German Romanticism. Mimesis, or the imitatio

The idea that a young person can become adept in the art of life by passing through definite stages, until at last he becomes a master, lives at the core of the

First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.

Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written dur