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The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale (Hardcover)
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The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the
supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for
literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte's prototypical "The
Devil in Love" as a starting point, this book 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 new 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.
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