A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann

by Birgit Roder

The German Romantic writer and composer E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) -- perhaps best known to the English-speaking world through his Nutcracker and through Jacques Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann -- struggled to convince his predominantly bourgeois public of the merits of art and literature. Not surprisingly, many of his most important novellas are bound up with the dilemmas of art and the challenges faced by the Romantic artist, and it is these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571132716
• ISBN13: 9781571132710
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"