E.T.A. Hoffmann : transgressive romanticism / edited by Christopher R. Clason.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clason, Christopher R., editor.

Series:

Romantic reconfigurations.

Romantic reconfigurations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822--Criticism and interpretation.

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This collection of essays addresses a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann's most significant works, examining them through the lens of "transgression." Transgression bears relevance to Hoffmann's life and professions in three ways. First, his official career path was that of jurisprudence; he was active as a lawyer, a judge and eventually as one of the most important magistrates in Berlin. Second, his personal life was marked by numerous conflicts with political and social authorities. Seemingly no matter where he went, he experienced much chaos, grief and impoverishment in leading his always precarious existence. Third, his works explore characters and concepts beyond the boundaries of what was considered aesthetically acceptable. "Normal" bourgeois existence was often juxtaposed to the lives of criminals, sinners, and other deviants, both within the spaces of the known world as well as in supernatural realms. He, perhaps more than any other author of the German Romantic movement, regularly portrayed the dark side of existence in his works, including unconscious psychological phenomena, nightmares, somnambulism, vampirism, mesmerism, Doppelgänger, and other forms of transgressive behavior. It is the intention of this volume to provide a new look at Hoffmann's very diverse body of work from numerous perspectives, stimulating interest in Hoffmann in English language audiences.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Transgression and institutions

1. "A poor, imprisoned animal." Persons, property, and the unnatural nature of the law in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Das Majorat" / Alexander Schlutz

2. Vergiftete Gaben: violating the laws of hospitality in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Das Fraulein von Scuderi" / Peter Erickson

3. Transgressive science in E.T.A. Hoffmann's fantastic tales / Paola Mayer

II. Transgression and the arts

4. E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Bamberg theater / Frederick Burwick

5. Transitions and slippages of mimesis in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Der goldene Topf," "Die Fermate," and "Das ode Haus" / Beate Allert

6. Transgressions: on the (De-)Figuration of the vampire in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Vampyrismus" / Nicole A. Sutterlin

III. Transgression in the Marchen

7. Transgressive play and uncanny toys in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Das fremde Kind" / Christina Weiler

8. Attending to the everyday: idiosyncrasy in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Der goldene Topf" / Ruth Kellar

9. Prinzessin Brambilla: the aesthetic between public and private / Howard Pollack-Millgate

IV. Transgression of reception in Kater Murr

10. Hoffmann's "Two Worlds" and the problem of life-writing / Julian Knox

11. "Real humor cannot be captured in a novel": Kierkegaard reading E.T.A. Hoffmann's Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr / James Rasmussen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: E.T.A. Hoffmann.

ISBN:

9781786948748

9781789629057

1789629055

1786948745

OCLC:

1039095163