The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale by Von Mücke, Dorothea E.

The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780804738590)

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The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale by Von Mücke, Dorothea E.

The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale

$140.00
The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale by Von Mücke, Dorothea E.

The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book examines the early development of the fantastic tale through the works of of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the literary form.

Author: Dorothea E. Von Mücke
ISBN-10: 0804738599
ISBN-13: 9780804738590
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2003
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.91d
By Dorothea E. Von Mücke
By Dorothea E. Von Mücke
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Dorothea E. von Mücke is Professor of German at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Stanford, 1991) and the coeditor (with Veronica Kelly) of Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford, 1994).

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