Popular revenants
Subtitle: the German gothic and its international reception, 1800-2000
By: edited by Andrew Cusack and Barry Murnane
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781571135193
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English; History and criticism; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Appreciation; Congresses; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), German; Horror films; Horror tales
Other titles: German gothic and its international reception, 1800-2000
Notes: "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"--P.    .

Includes some essays translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Andrew Cusack; title: Haunting (literary) history: an introduction to German gothic / Barry Murnane; title: "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; title: Blaming the other: the Schauerroman and Anglo-German cultural transfer around 1800 / Silke Arnold-de Simine; title: Scott, Hoffmann, and the persistence of the gothic / Victor Sage; title: Intercultural transfer in the Dublin University magazine: James Clarence Mangan and the German gothic / Andrew Cusack; title: In the maelstrom of interpretation: reshaping terror and horror between 1798 and 1838: Gleich, Hoffmann, Poe / Mario Grizelj; title: Popular ghosts: Heinrich Heine on German Geistesgeschichte as gothic novel / Jorg Kreienbrock; title: The spirit world of art and Robert Schumann's gothic novel project: the impact of gothic literature on Schumann's writings / Monika Schmitz-Emans; title: About face: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Weimar film, and the technological afterlife of gothic physiognomy / Andrew Webber; title: Of rats, wolves, and men: the Pied Piper as gothic revenant and provenant in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Hamelschen Kinder / Peter Arnds; title: The lady in white or the laws of the ghost in Theodor Fontane's Vor dem Sturm / Matthias Bickenbach; title: On golems and ghosts: Prague as a site of gothic modernism / Barry Murnane; title: "Ein gespenst geht um": Christa Wolf, Irina Liebmann, and the post-Wall gothic / Catherine Smale.