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__History of the Novel __

1770-1775: Goethe begins to write Faust(Part 1)

1787–90 Goethe resumes work on a section of what would become Part 1, publishing it in 1790 as Faust: A Fragment.

1797–1801 Goethe again resumes work on Faust, deciding to divide it into two parts and nearly completing Part 1, then publishes it in 1801.

"Romanticism fosters a return to nature and also values the imagination over reason and emotion over intellect" www.nvcc.edu

This play was published in the 19th century which, in the history of the novel, fell right in the period of the Romantic writers, and that is very apparent throughout the play. Due to the Romantic influences of the time, Faust was a very experimental writer and was said to be the father of Romanticism.

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