Mignon's Afterlives - Cave, Terence (Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)

Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.