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Eric Parisot, Lecturer in English, Flinders University

The Sorrows of Young Werther at 250: Goethe’s dangerous romantic hero influenced fashion, fiction – and Napoleon

Goethe in the Roman Campagna – Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1797). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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