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Worthy Companions
- Author(s):
- Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
- Date:
- 2005
- Group(s):
- CLCS 18th-Century, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- British literature, Eighteenth century, German literature
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- Francis burney, Evelina, goethe, young werther, 18th-century British literature, 18th-century German literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/x452-6a25
- Abstract:
- Compares Evelina, from Frances Burney's "Evelina," and Werther, from Goethe's "Young Werther." Argues that though they could readily be made to seem opposite to one another, as they seek company with such disparate groups of people, the difference is superficial, and their motivations, the same -- namely, to make use of their associations with "purer" peoples to distinguish themselves narcissistically from their own particular "worst sorts of people."
- Notes:
- Undergraduate paper.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial