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

Groundbreaking essays highlighting Goethe's relevance to contemporary theoretical debates and Goethe criticism of recent decades.

Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive spa