E. T. A. Hoffmann

Reviews'This new resource is both enjoyable and thoroughly thought-provokingand so is well worth consultation by faculty and students.' Sen Williams, European Romantic Review 'Transgressive Romanticism engages its central spatial metaphor to make Hoffmanns complex potential as a protorealist clear: expertly attuned to the forms of life and literature with which he was familiar, while always ready to subvert and think beyond them.' Polly Dickson, German Studies Review

Christopher R. Clason is Emeritus Professor of German at Oakland University. He is the editor of E. T. A. Hoffmann: Transgressive Romanticism (2018) and co-editor of Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (2020), Romantic Rapports: New Essays on Romanticism Across the Disciplines (2017) and Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia during the Romantic Era (2011).

Acknowledgements Introduction --- Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University I. Transgression and Institutions 1. A poor, imprisoned animal. Persons, Property, and the Unnatural Nature of the Law in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Das Majorat. --- Alexander Schlutz, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center 2. Vergiftete Gaben: Violating the Laws of Hospitality in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Das Frulein von Scuderi --- Peter Erickson, Colorado State University 3. Transgressive Science in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Fantastic Tales --- Paola Mayer, University of GuelphII. Transgression and the Arts 4. E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Bamberg Theater --- Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles 5. Transitions and Slippages of Mimesis in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Der goldene Topf, Die Fermate, and Das de Haus. --- Beate Allert, Purdue University 6. Transgressions: On the (De-)Figuration of the Vampire in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Vampyrism" --- Nicole Stterlin, Harvard UniversityIII. Transgression in the Mrchen 7. Transgressive Play and Uncanny Toys in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Das fremde Kind --- Christina Weiler, Purdue University 8. Attending to the Everyday: Idiosyncrasy in E.T.A. Hoffmanns The Golden Pot --- Ruth Kellar, University of Wisconsin, Madison 9. Prinzessin Brambilla: The Aesthetic between Public and Private --- Howard Pollack-Millgate, DePauw UniversityIV. Transgression of Reception in Kater Murr 10. Hoffmanns Two Worlds and the Problem of Life-Writing --- Julian Knox, Georgia College 11. Real Humor Cannot Be Captured in a Novel: Kierkegaard Reading E.T.A. Hoffmanns Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr --- James Rasmussen, United States Air Force AcademyWorks Cited Index