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1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) :
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ISBN:
9781571138279 (ebook)
Content:
The literary mode of the Gothic is well established in English Studies, and there is growing interest in its internationality. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly - for instance, in the form of plagiarized texts or pseudo-translations of nonexistent sources. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years is aimed at students and researchers in German Studies and English Studies, and redresses deficiencies in existing sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies. The book examines the international reception of German Gothic since the 1790s heyday of the Gothic novel in Britain and Germany; traces a line of Gothic writing in German to the present day; and inquires into the extraliterary impact of German Gothic. Thus the essays do full justice to the Gothic as a site of conflict and exchange - both between cultures and between discourses. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Silke Arnold-de Simine, Jürgen Barkhoff, Matthias Bickenbach, Andrew Cusack, Mario Grizelj, Jörg Kreienbrock, Barry Murnane, Victor Sage, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Catherine Smale, Andrew Webber. Andrew Cusack is Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Barry Murnane is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Haunting (literary) history :
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an introduction to German gothic /
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"The echo of the question, as if it had merely resounded in a tomb" :
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the dark anthropology of the Schauerroman in Schiller's Der Geisterseher /
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Blaming the other :
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the Schauerroman and Anglo-German cultural transfer around 1800 /
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Scott, Hoffmann, and the persistence of the gothic /
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Intercultural transfer in the Dublin University magazine :
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James Clarence Mangan and the German gothic /
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In the maelstrom of interpretation :
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reshaping terror and horror between 1798 and 1838 :
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Gleich, Hoffmann, Poe /
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Popular ghosts :
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Heinrich Heine on German Geistesgeschichte as gothic novel /
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The spirit world of art and Robert Schumann's gothic novel project :
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the impact of gothic literature on Schumann's writings /
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About face :
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E.T.A. Hoffmann, Weimar film, and the technological afterlife of gothic physiognomy /
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Of rats, wolves, and men :
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the Pied Piper as gothic revenant and provenant in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Hamelschen Kinder /
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The lady in white or the laws of the ghost in Theodor Fontane's Vor dem Sturm /
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On golems and ghosts :
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Prague as a site of gothic modernism /
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"Ein gespenst geht um" :
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Christa Wolf, Irina Liebmann, and the post-Wall gothic /
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Print version: ISBN 9781571135193
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
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