Goethe and Patriarchy

"This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe''s writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to the final years as Europe''s most celebrated living poet. Simpson shows how the young man''s fantasy of innocent sexuality became an increasingly troubled one during the poet''s first decade in Weimar. Goethe began to recognize in it a submerged elemen...