Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale

Author/Contributor(s):	Von Mucke, Dorothea E
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	02/14/2003
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book examines the early development of the fantastic tale through the works of of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the literary form.