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...
Mary Shelley s novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was first published in 1818. A year before Hoffmann s novella Der Sandmann wa...
