The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale

Dorothea E. von Mücke

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STANFORD UNI PRESS
14 February 2003

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

"The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late 18th and early 19th centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte's ""The Devil in Love"" as a starting point, this work examines the genre's early development in the fantastic tales of the German Romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E.T.A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the literary form. The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other's potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating."

By: Dorothea E. von Mücke
Imprint: STANFORD UNI PRESS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780804738606
ISBN 10: 0804738602
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 14 February 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Dorothea E. von Mucke is Professor of German at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Stanford, 1991) and the coeditor (with Veronica Kelly) of Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford, 1994).

Reviews for The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale

The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study. -- Leonardo Reviews