Jane K. Brown

Jane Kurshan Brown (born 1943) is an American literary scholar, currently the Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor of Western Civilization Emerita (Germanics and Comparative Literature) at the University of Washington.

Publications Select works: Goethe's cyclical narratives, Die Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, 1975 Goethe's Faust : the German tragedy, 1986 Faust : theater of the world, 1992 Ironie und Objektivität : Aufsätze zu Goethe, 1998 The persistence of allegory : drama and neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner, 2006 Goethe's allegories of identity, 2014