The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter
by
Jocelyn Holland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms...