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- catalog abstract "Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was first published in 1818. A year before Hoffmann's novella Der Sandmann was published in the first of the two volumes of his Nachtstucke. A major theme for Mary Shelley and E.T.A. Hoffmann and a hitherto neglected aspect of academic research is the question of madness, in Frankenstein and Der Sandmann. Both texts represent certain features shared by the Romantic movements in Germany and England, such as an ironic stance towards Romanticism itself, its Prometheanism, or its indulgence in the occult. At the same time both authors criticise the Enlightenment project more than they do celebrate the idea of progress. The first two chapters of this study stress the contrastive approaches of Hoffmann and Mary Shelley in their explorations of madness. The rest of this analysis emphasises the similarities of mythological, cultural and linguistic contexts within which Mary Shelley and Hoffmann settle their pre-occupation with madness. This study aims at finding out whether insanity is an illness of the isolated individual, or whether society is sick itself. Is insanity related to the body or the mind? Is it an image for the crisis of representation in postrevolutionary Romanticism?".
- catalog contributor b12861092.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-289).".
- catalog description "Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was first published in 1818. A year before Hoffmann's novella Der Sandmann was published in the first of the two volumes of his Nachtstucke. A major theme for Mary Shelley and E.T.A. Hoffmann and a hitherto neglected aspect of academic research is the question of madness, in Frankenstein and Der Sandmann. Both texts represent certain features shared by the Romantic movements in Germany and England, such as an ironic stance towards Romanticism itself, its Prometheanism, or its indulgence in the occult. At the same time both authors criticise the Enlightenment project more than they do celebrate the idea of progress. The first two chapters of this study stress the contrastive approaches of Hoffmann and Mary Shelley in their explorations of madness. The rest of this analysis emphasises the similarities of mythological, cultural and linguistic contexts within which Mary Shelley and Hoffmann settle their pre-occupation with madness. This study aims at finding out whether insanity is an illness of the isolated individual, or whether society is sick itself. Is insanity related to the body or the mind? Is it an image for the crisis of representation in postrevolutionary Romanticism?".
- catalog extent "289 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Question of madness in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mary Shelley.".
- catalog identifier "0820460982 (U.S.)".
- catalog identifier "363150604X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Question of madness in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mary Shelley.".
- catalog isPartOf "European university studies. Series XVIII, Comparative literature, 0721-3425 ; v. 107 = Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XVIII, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft ; Bd. 107".
- catalog isPartOf "Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XVIII, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaften ; Bd. 107.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Question of madness in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mary Shelley.".
- catalog subject "833/.6 21".
- catalog subject "Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822. Sandmann.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness in literature.".
- catalog subject "PT2360.S3 P74 2003".
- catalog subject "Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.".
- catalog title "The question of madness in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mary Shelley : with particular reference to Frankenstein and Der Sandmann / Karin Preuss.".
- catalog type "text".