The Damnation of Newton

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prelude in the Academy -- I. Goethe's Farbenlehre: The Newtonian Controversy -- II. Goethe's Entoptische Farben: The Problem of Polarity -- III. Goethe's Homunculus: The Mediation of Light -- IV. Novalis: Transcendental Physics and the Sidereal Man -- V. Achim von Arnim: The Galvanic Eye -- VI. Wordsworth: An Auxiliar Light -- VIII. Coleridge and Jean Paul: The Look of Limbo -- VIII. Coleridge and Schlegel: The Glittering Eye -- IX. Shelley: The Traces of Faust -- Bibliography -- Index -- 309-310

Auteur
Frederick Burwick, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, has taught courses on Romantic drama and directed student performances of a dozen plays.