The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3741-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 165, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1053 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

The first full-length study of the main German contributors to the Gothic canon, to each of whom a chapter is devoted, The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective is an original historical and comparative study that goes well beyond the necessary review of the evidence to include much new material, many new insights and pieces of analysis, and some fundamental changes of perspective. The book aims to put the record straight in bibliographical and literary historical terms, and to act as a reference guide to facilitate future research, so that anyone working on the German Gothic novel or on Anglo-German interactions in the field of Gothic, will find there references to all the relevant secondary literature. The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective is addressed to Germanists, but also to teachers and students of English, American and comparative literature, for there is at present hardly a ‘hotter’ subject than Gothic. The book’s emphasis on the Gothic work of canonical writers should prompt even conservative German Departments to reconsider their attitude to Gothic. Being addressed to scholars and students of German, German quotations are given in German, but English translations are added for the convenience of English and American scholars and students of Gothic, who represent another important section of the books’ target audience.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
Part I
Goethe
Veit Weber
Benedicte Naubert
Schiller
Grosse and Tieck
Heinrich von Kleist
Bonaventura
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Alexis and Meinhold
Part II
The Vehmgericht or Secret Tribunal
Hues of Villainy
Anglo-German Interactions
A Gothic Iconography
Gothic and Märchen
Bibliography
Index