# William Lovell

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***William Lovell***[1] is a novel by the German writer [Ludwig Tieck](/source/Ludwig_Tieck), published anonymously in three volumes in 1795–1796. It is an epistolary novel that follows the self-destructive intellectual development of a young Englishman who travels in Europe.[2][3][4][5]

Tieck conceived *William Lovell* while he was a student of English literature. He was initially inspired to write the story by *[The New Inn](/source/The_New_Inn)* by [Ben Jonson](/source/Ben_Jonson) and was greatly influenced by the narrative technique and several episodes in *The Perverted Peasant* by [Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne](/source/Nicolas_Restif_de_la_Bretonne). The story is not autobiographical, but Lovell's ideas and worldview are close to Tieck's and inspired by [Enlightenment](/source/Age_of_Enlightenment) thinking.[6]

## References

1. The first edition also includes the title *Die Geschichte des Herrn William Lovell* (lit. 'The Story of Mr. William Lovell').

1. Tucker, Brian (2010). [*Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud*](https://books.google.com/books?id=9-hJR7v1IpgC&pg=PA93). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781611480290.

1. Götze, Martin (2011). ["Philosophie"](https://books.google.com/books?id=KpLi0hyMQAkC&pg=PA304). *Ludwig Tieck. Leben - Werk - Wirkung* (in German). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 304–306. ISBN 9783110217476.

1. Corkhill, Alan (1985). "Perspectives on Language in Ludwig Tieck's Epistolary Novel William Lovell". *[The German Quarterly](/source/The_German_Quarterly)*. **58** (2): 173–183. [doi:10.2307/406985](https://doi.org/10.2307/406985)

1. Knopper, Françoise (1974). "L'image et le rôle de l'Italie dans William Lovell (1795) de Ludwig Tieck" (in French). *Recherches germaniques*. '***(4): 3-15. [doi:10.3406/reger.1974.922](https://doi.org/10.3406/reger.1974.922)***

1. Jost, François (1973). "Ludwig Tieck: English and French Sources of His William Lovell (1795/96)". *Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture*. **2**: 181-193. [doi:10.1353/sec.1973.0009](https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1973.0009)

## External links

- [Projekt Gutenberg-DE](https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/tieck/lovell/lovell.html)
- [Deutsches Textarchiv](/source/Deutsches_Textarchiv): [volume 1](https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/show/tieck_lovell01_1795), [volume 2](https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/show/tieck_lovell02_1796) and [volume 3](https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/show/tieck_lovell03_1796)

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