Love in Germany

In the learned and wealthy Germany of Goethe and Schiller, both heterosexual and homosexual love were extolled with solmn eloquence and practised with a reclessness which would have made even Rousseau stare. This study of the ethically rebellious German intellectuals of the time includes the amours of Hoffman, Novalis, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Jean Paul Richter and August Wilhelm Schlegel. Some of the affairs were emphatically documented with extracts from uninhibited diaries, memoirs and letters, providing an authentic insight into Germany's great romantic age.