Popular revenants : the German gothic and its international reception, 1800-2000 / edited by Andrew Cusack and Barry Murnane.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2012.
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vi, 309 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]
    Notes
    • "With two exceptions, the essays collected in this volume have evolved from papers presented at the symposium "Popular Revenants" held at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 September 2009"--From acknowledgments.
    • Includes some essays translated from German.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Andrew Cusack
    • Haunting (literary) history: an introduction to German gothic / Barry Murnane
    • "The echo of the question, as if it had merely resounded in a tomb": the dark anthropology of the Schauerroman in Schiller's Der Geisterseher / Jurgen Barkhoff
    • Blaming the other: the Schauerroman and Anglo-German cultural transfer around 1800 / Silke Arnold-de Simine
    • Scott, Hoffmann, and the persistence of the gothic / Victor Sage
    • Intercultural 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 Geistesgeschichte as gothic novel / Jorg Kreienbrock
    • The spirit world of art and Robert Schumann's gothic novel project: the impact of gothic literature on Schumann's writings / Monika Schmitz-Emans
    • About face: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Weimar film, and the technological afterlife of gothic physiognomy / Andrew Webber
    • Of rats, wolves, and men: the Pied Piper as gothic revenant and provenant in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Hamelschen 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.
    Other title(s)
    German gothic and its international reception, 1800-2000
    ISBN
    • 9781571135193 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 1571135197 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2012003149
    OCLC
    753627069
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