Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Andrew Cusack
  • Haunting (literary) history: an introduction to German gothic / Barry Murnane
  • "The echo of the question, as if it had merely resounded in a tomb": the dark anthropology of the Schauerroman in Schiller's Der Geisterseher / Jurgen Barkhoff
  • Blaming the other: the Schauerroman and Anglo-German cultural transfer around 1800 / Silke Arnold-de Simine
  • Scott, Hoffmann, and the persistence of the gothic / Victor Sage
  • Intercultural transfer in the Dublin University magazine: James Clarence Mangan and the German gothic / Andrew Cusack
  • In the maelstrom of interpretation: reshaping terror and horror between 1798 and 1838: Gleich, Hoffmann, Poe / Mario Grizelj
  • Popular ghosts: Heinrich Heine on German Geistesgeschichte as gothic novel / Jorg Kreienbrock
  • The spirit world of art and Robert Schumann's gothic novel project: the impact of gothic literature on Schumann's writings / Monika Schmitz-Emans
  • About face: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Weimar film, and the technological afterlife of gothic physiognomy / Andrew Webber
  • Of rats, wolves, and men: the Pied Piper as gothic revenant and provenant in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Hamelschen Kinder / Peter Arnds
  • The lady in white or the laws of the ghost in Theodor Fontane's Vor dem Sturm / Matthias Bickenbach
  • On golems and ghosts: Prague as a site of gothic modernism / Barry Murnane
  • "Ein gespenst geht um": Christa Wolf, Irina Liebmann, and the post-Wall gothic / Catherine Smale.