Frankenstein's Island: England and the English in the Writings of Heinrich Heine

by S. Prawer and Siegbert Solomon Prawer

Book Overview

Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women, institutions and politics, and books and journals of his own day; and to have extended his observation backwards into English history and literature of the past in a way that constantly welds the past to the present. The picture which emerges is one shaped by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521110629
• ISBN13: 9780521110624
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"