{"product_id":"the-question-of-madness-in-the-works-of-e-t-a-hoffmann-and-mary-shelley-with-particular-reference-to-frankenstein-and-der-sandmann-9783631506042","title":"The Question of Madness in the Works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mary Shelley: With Particular Reference to Frankenstein and Der Sandmann","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Karin Preuß\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Shelley's novel \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein or the Modern Prometheus \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1818. A year before Hoffmann's novella \u003ci\u003eDer Sandmann \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in the first of the two volumes of his \u003ci\u003eNachtstücke\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDer Sandmann.\u003c\/i\u003e 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 occult. At the same time both authors criticise the Enlightenment project more than they do celebrate the idea of progress. The first two chapters of this study stress the contrastive approaches of Hoffmann and Mary Shelley in their explorations of madness. The rest of this analysis emphasises the similarities of mythological, cultural and linguistic contexts within which Mary Shelley and Hoffmann settle their preoccupation with madness. This study aims at finding out whether insanity is an illness of the isolated individual, or whether society is sick itself. Is insanity related to the body or the mind? Is it an image for the crisis of representation in postrevolutionary Romanticism?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892241580183,"sku":"9783631506042","price":5865.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783631506042.webp?v=1781186191","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-question-of-madness-in-the-works-of-e-t-a-hoffmann-and-mary-shelley-with-particular-reference-to-frankenstein-and-der-sandmann-9783631506042","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}