Wanying Wang

God-Nature and the Walpurgisnacht Motif in Goethe’s Faust: Religious Continuity and Contestation in Literary Form

Goethe’s three Walpurgisnacht scenes in Faust are usually separated as demonic spectacle, satirical intermezzo, and classical phantasmagoria. Read together, they form a poetic sequence interpreted through Goethe’s conception of God-Nature (Gott-Natur), a non-systematic conception...