Goethe’s dangerous romantic hero influenced fashion, fiction – and Napoleon
- Written by Eric Parisot, Lecturer in English, Flinders University
Goethe in the Roman Campagna – Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1797).Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsIn our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.
This month marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s celebrated and controversial novel Die Leiden des Jungen...





