The wanderer is an indispensable part of the German cultural imaginary. The nineteenth-century prominence of the motif owes much to the self-conception of the intellectual pioneers of the day as wanderers. The motif is also a key to interpretation of the social and cultural phenomena of a turbulent century that began with the emancipatory claims of the Enlightenment and ended in untrammeled industrialism. Writers from Goethe to Buchner, Fontane to Holtei were keenly aware of the motif's interpretive value, attempting to grasp with it not only such developments as mass migration and...

Um 1800 geht das Gespenst einer neuen populren Romanform um: der Schauerroman.In 17 Beitrgen wird die Entstehung des deutschen Schauerromans als eigenstndige Formation in der Sptaufklrung und Frhromantik rekonstruiert und diskursgeschichtlich untersucht.Ausgehend von anthropologischen Grundannahmen der Sptaufklrung zum Phnomen des Schauers u.a. bei Schiller und Grosse, ber eine Reihe von Einzeluntersuchungen zu populren Formen des Schauerromans vom Ausgang der Romantik bis zur Jahrhundertwende um 1800, fhrt der Band die Kristallisation einer spezifisch romantischen sthetik des Schauerromans...

The literary mode of the Gothic is well established in English Studies, and there is growing interest in its internationality. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly -- for instance, in the form of plagiarized texts or pseudo-translations of nonexistent sources. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years is aimed at students and researchers in German Studies and...