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Andrew Cusack, Barry Murnane

The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode.

Introduction - Andrew CusackHaunting (Literary) History: An Introduction toGerman Gothic - Barry Murnane"The echo of the question, as if it had merely resoundedin a tomb": The Dark Anthropology of the Schauerroman in Schiller's Der Geisterseher - Jürgen BarkhoffBlaming the Other: English Translations of Benedikte Naubert's Hermann von Unna (1788/1794) - Silke Arnold-de SimineScott, Hoffmann, and the Persistence of the Gothic - Victor SageCultural Transfer in the Dublin University Magazine: James Clarence Mangan and the German Gothic - Andrew CusackIn the Maelstrom of Interpretation: Reshaping Terror and Horror between 1798 and 1838 - Gleich, Hoffmann, Poe - Mario GrizeljPopular Ghosts: Heinrich Heine on German Geistesgeschichteas Gothic Novel - Jorg KreienbrockThe Spirit World of Art and Robert Schumann's Gothic Novel Project: The Impact of Gothic Literature onSchumann's Writings - Monika Schmitz-EmansAbout Face: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Weimar Film, and theTechnological Afterlife of Gothic Physiognomy - Andrew J. WebberOf Rats, Wolves, and Men: The Pied Piper as Gothic Revenantand Provenant in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Hämelschen Kinder - Peter ArndsThe Lady in White or the Laws of the Ghost in Theodor Fontane's Vor dem Sturm - Matthias BickenbachOn 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 SmaleWorks CitedNotes on ContributorsIndex