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Kids These Days! Cultural Reactions to The Sorrows of Young Werther

6/22/2013

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Forget Nirvana or James Dean! Back in the 19th century, every angsty teen had one idol: Werther--and they would do anything to be like him ... anything.

Podcaster: Elizabeth

Further Reading

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, (1774, updated 1787).

David P. Phillips, “The Influence of Suggestion on Suicide: Substantive and Theoretical Implications of the Werther Effect,” American Sociological Review 39:3 (1974), pp. 340-54. (Available via JSTOR) 

Lauren Coleman, The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines, Gallery Books (2004).

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)​
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