"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"--Acknowl. Includes some essays translated from German. 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.
Series:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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