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The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode.
List of contents
Introduction - Andrew Cusack
Haunting (Literary) History: An Introduction toGerman Gothic - Barry Murnane
"The echo of the question, as if it had merely resoundedin a tomb": The Dark Anthropology of the Schauerroman in Schiller's Der Geisterseher - Jürgen Barkhoff
Blaming the Other: English Translations of Benedikte Naubert's Hermann von Unna (1788/1794) - Silke Arnold-de Simine
Scott, Hoffmann, and the Persistence of the Gothic - Victor Sage
Cultural Transfer in the Dublin University Magazine: James Clarence Mangan and the German Gothic - Andrew Cusack
In the Maelstrom of Interpretation: Reshaping Terror and Horror between 1798 and 1838 - Gleich, Hoffmann, Poe - Mario Grizelj
Popular Ghosts: Heinrich Heine on German Geistesgeschichteas Gothic Novel - Jorg Kreienbrock
The Spirit World of Art and Robert Schumann's Gothic Novel Project: The Impact of Gothic Literature onSchumann's Writings - Monika Schmitz-Emans
About Face: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Weimar Film, and theTechnological Afterlife of Gothic Physiognomy - Andrew J. Webber
Of Rats, Wolves, and Men: The Pied Piper as Gothic Revenantand Provenant in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Hämelschen Kinder - Peter Arnds
The Lady in White or the Laws of the Ghost in Theodor Fontane's Vor dem Sturm - Matthias Bickenbach
On Golems and Ghosts: Prague as a Site of Gothic Modernism - Barry Murnane
"Ein Gespenst geht um": Christa Wolf, Irina Liebmann, and the Post-Wall Gothic - Catherine Smale
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Andrew Cusack, Barry Murnane
Summary
The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode.
