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Goethe's Faust I Outlined: Moritz Retzsch's Prints in Circulation(113 Library of the Written Word - The Industrial World)

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In a new approach to Goethe's Faust I, Evanghelia Stead extensively discusses Moritz Retzsch's twenty-six outline prints (1816) and how their spin-offs made the unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, including bespoke gifts. The images amply transformed as they travelled throughout Europe and overseas, revealing differences between countries and cultures but also their pliability and resilience whenever remediated. This interdisciplinary investigation evidences the importance of print culture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in nations involved in competition and conflict. Retzsch's foundational set crucially engenders parody, and inspires the stage, literature, and three-dimensional objects, well beyond common perceptions of print culture's influence. This book is available in open access thanks to an Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) grant.

About the Author :
Evanghelia Stead, Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture at UVSQ Paris Saclay, has published extensively on the fin-de-siècle, Greek and Latin myths in modern literature, texts and iconography, periodicals, and books as cultural objects, including Goethe's Faust I.

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"Goethe’s Faust I Outlined is meticulously researched, based at every step on hands-on evidence. [...] Altogether, Stead’s is one of the most detailed intermedial studies I have encountered, and [...] is itself a beautiful work of book art, with sturdy bright yellow hardcover binding that opens with plates of all 26 Retzsch outlines on glossy paper followed by literally hundreds of images, many of them in color." - Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University, in: Media History, Vol. 30 (December 2024) [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2024.2434286] "This is a scholarly tour de force." - Bethan Stevens, University of Sussex, in: Print Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 2 (June 2025), pp. 240–243 "In reading the dense 450-page book that Evanghélia Stead devotes to this [Faust] edition and its numerous substitutes, one comes to wonder whether Faust—and even Goethe—would have become what they are without the work of the German artist [i.e., illustrator Moritz Retzsch]." - Philippe Kaenel, University of Lausanne, in: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2025), pp. 157–160 "Ausführlichkeit und Anschaulichkeit der Beschreibungen, Prägnanz und Aussagekraft der Analysen, Breite und Fülle des verarbeiteten Wissens sowie des Quellen- und Bildmaterials, Interdisziplinarität und Perspektivenreichtum, Vielzahl und Qualität der Abbildungen, Sorgfalt und Tiefe der bibliographischen Angaben (allein die beiden umfangreichen, chronologisch-tabellarisch geordneten bibliographischen Verzeichnisse im Anhang, die Ausgaben der Umrisse und Remediationen aufführen, enthalten eine Überfülle genauester Informationen), schließlich das sehr differenziert strukturierte Register, das benutzerfreundlich jederzeit den Zugriff auf spezifische thematische Aspekte ermöglicht – Evanghelia Steads Monographie setzt in vielerlei Hinsicht neue Maßstäbe in der wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Geschichte der Faust-Illustration, nicht nur in Bezug auf die Umrisse von Moritz Retzsch. Zukünftige Arbeiten in diesem Bereich werden in ihrer Studie ein unverzichtbares Referenzwerk vorfinden." - Carsten Rohde, Sun Yat-sen University, in: Goethe Jahrbuch, Vol. 140 (2023), pp. 320–322 "Steads interdisziplinäre Untersuchung [leistet] einen zentralen Beitrag zur Bedeutung des kulturellen Austauschs mittels der graphischen Künste in den miteinander konkurrierenden Nationen Europas während des 19. und im frühen 20. Jahrhundert." - Gerd-Helge Vogel, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, in: Kunstchronik, Vol. 77, No. 9/10 (2024), pp. 650–656 "En accompagnant les gravures de Retzsch, qui se recoupent, s’hybrident, se juxtaposent – mais pourtant survivent toujours –, le lecteur est mis en contact avec de multiples milieux et champs de recherches, analysés en profondeur par Évanghélia Stead. […] Suivre ainsi, au plus près des archives, un corpus restreint d’images, dans tous ses détournements interculturels, toutes ses métamorphoses, remédiations, incarnations, projections sensibles – sur près d’un siècle, et sur plus d’un continent – constituait un pari ambitieux, rigoureusement réussi." - Tristan Dot, Université de Cambridge, in: Belphégor, 22 :2 (2024) "Il peut sembler difficile d’apporter du nouveau sur le Faust de Goethe, cette œuvre majeure du canon littéraire européen, que tout le monde connaît même sans l’avoir lu […]. C’est pourtant bien ce que fait Evanghelia Stead dans son dernier ouvrage en prenant le parti des images, et plus précisément la série de 26 gravures au trait de Moritz Retzsch (1779-1857), qui fut publiée pour la première fois en 1816, du vivant de l’auteur de Faust. En étudiant la fortune européenne multiforme de cette suite iconographique, elle éclaire d’un jour radicalement neuf la réception européenne de la première partie de la pièce de Goethe ; elle montre en effet comment ces images rendirent à bien des égards lisible la complexité poétique de ce « chaos intellectuel » selon l’expression de Germaine de Staël. […] Le croisement des perspectives, de la bibliographie matérielle à la sociologie de la littérature, en passant par l’iconographie, l’histoire du livre et de l’édition, jette un jour nouveau à la fois sur la réception d’une œuvre majeure et sur tout un pan de la culture européenne de l’imprimé." - Jean-Louis Haquette, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, in: La Vie des idées, 17 janvier 2025 "E. Stead décrit comment les Sihouettes, dans leurs physionomies sans cesse changeantes, ont façonné la compréhension de l'œuvre et donné lieu à de nouvelles adaptations et appropriations du texte. À travers cette étude de cas remarquable, elle contribue ainsi à l'écriture d'un siècle d'histoire visuelle européenne de Faust." - Christine Roger, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, in: Études germaniques, Vol. 79, No. 3 (2024), pp. 441–442


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004543010
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 113 Library of the Written Word - The Industrial World
  • ISBN-10: 9004543015
  • Publisher Date: 24 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 450
  • Sub Title: Moritz Retzsch's Prints in Circulation


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