Goethe and the English-speaking world

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New studies of perception of Goethe and his works outside his native Germany.Goethe's relations with the English-speaking world have frequently been the subject of scholarly investigation. This volume brings together new points of view, variety of approaches, and original findings. These range from the discussion of recent critical approaches, such as chaos theory or Edward Said's Orientalism, to Goethean texts, through other more empirical contributions, which bring to light new material, some of it deriving from archives in Weimar relating to Goethe's contact with English culture. Other essays involve the reassessment of questions of influence, close readings of some parts of well-known texts such as Faust and Wilhelm Meister, analysis of recent translations of Goethe's poetry, and a long-overdue survey of the role played by some of Goethe's texts in Irish literature and culture.