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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453351703321

Autore

Bridgwater Patrick

Titolo

The German gothic novel in Anglo-German perspective / / Patrick Bridgwater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Rodopi, , 2013

ISBN

94-012-0992-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (597 p.)

Collana

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 165

Disciplina

830.938

Soggetti

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), German - History and criticism

Gothic revival (Literature) - Germany

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 591-596) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHRONOLOGY: The English and German Gothic Novel and their Translations together with other key dates -- INTRODUCTION -- GOETHE -- VEIT WEBER -- BENEDICTE NAUBERT -- SCHILLER -- GROSSE and TIECK -- HEINRICH VON KLEIST -- BONAVENTURA -- E. T. A. HOFFMANN -- ALEXIS and MEINHOLD -- THE VEHMGERICHT OR SECRET TRIBUNAL -- HUES OF VILLAINY -- ANGLO-GERMAN INTERACTIONS -- A GOTHIC ICONOGRAPHY -- GOTHIC AND MÄRCHEN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

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.