Title: Faust in literature /
Authors: Smeed, J. W.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1975
Subjects: Faust,; Faust, In literature.
Contents: The development of the Faust legend from the sixteenth century to the present day -- Faust as a character and a type. Changes in interpretation and motivation -- The devil -- Nature -- Problems bound up with the theme: the unanswerable questions; the catch in the pact; magical elements in the Faust legend -- Faust and Fust -- The popular and literary traditions -- Imitations and continuations of Goethe's Faust -- Faust and Don Juan: Faust and Don Juan come together; Hoffmann's influence; 'faustian' Don Juans; Hoffmann's Don Juan in France; Faustian traits in Don Juans not influenced by Hoffmann; Faust comes to resemble Don Juan; Conclusion -- Faust and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.