Goethe’s Allegories of Identity 22401 22401 Goethe’s Allegories of Identity 5 Jane K. Brown university of pennsylvania press philadelphia 22401 A volume in the Haney Foundation Series, established in 1961 with the generous support of Dr. John Louis Haney Copyright © 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brown, Jane K., 1943– Goethe’s allegories of identity / Jane K. Brown.—1st ed. p. cm.—(Haney Foundation series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4582-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749– 1832—Language. 3. Identity in literature. 4. Self in literature. 5. Subconsciousness in literature. 6. Subjectivity in literature. I. Title. II. Series: Haney Foundation series. PT2193.B76 2014 831'.6—dc23 2013031265 Frontispiece: Bust of Goethe by Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1829). © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY. 22401 contents PART I. THE PRoBLEM 1 Chapter 1. Representing Subjectivity 3 Chapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Passion 18 Chapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social Responsibility 35 PART II. ExPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIvITY 53 Chapter 4. The Theatrical Self 57 Chapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in Faust 77 Chapter 6. The Narrative Self 95 PART III. THE LANGUAGE oF INTERIoRITY 119 Chapter 7. Goethe’s Angst 123 Chapter 8. “Es singen wohl die Nixen”: Werther and the Romantic Tale 143 Chapter 9. Goethe and the Uncanny 160 Conclusion: Classicism and Goethe’s Emotional Regime 180 22401 vi contents Notes 189 Works Cited 211 Index 219 Acknowledgments 231 22401 For Marshall, Dorrit, and Benedict 22401 This page intentionally left blank Pa r t I the Problem 22401