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Professor Nicholas Boyle - Re-thinking Political Economy


Coleridge 11 May 2010


Prioress's Room, Jesus College, Cambridge

Professor Nicholas Boyle is a Fellow of Magdalene College was elected to the Schröder Professorship of German, Cambridge University, in 2006. Before that he was Professor of German Literary and Intellectual History, and he has taught German in Cambridge since he was a student.

He has a particular interest in German literature and thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and especially in Goethe, and in the relation between religion and literature. He has so far published two volumes of his prizewinning biography, Goethe: the Poet and the Age and is currently working on the third and (he hopes) last. The biography has been translated into German and in 2000 Professor Boyle was awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe-Institut. In 2001 he was elected to the British Academy. His wide interests include European literature, philosophy, theology, and politics, reflected in his book of essays, Who Are We Now? published in 1998, and in Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature, published in 2005. He has also edited various volumes and a CD-ROM of Goethe's works, and has published a study of Faust Part One and numerous articles on French and German literature.