Looking for Love in Werther, Jacopo Ortis, and Leandros: A Comparative Analysis of Three Romantic Epistolary Novels from Germany, Italy, and Greece
Keywords:
romanticism, epistolary novel, love, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Foscolo, Ugo, Soutsos, Panagiotis, literary characters, Werther, Jacopo Ortis, LeandrosAbstract
The article investigates the concept of love in three epistolary novels that are intertextually linked: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1802) by Ugo Foscolo, and O Leandros (1834) by Panagiotis Soutsos. The Greek author situates his text within the tradition of his German and Italian predecessors, at the same time claiming it to be the first novel of modern Greek literary history.References
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