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In this first monograph on E. T. A. Hoffmann and opera, Francien Markx examines Hoffmann’s writings on opera and the challenges they pose to established narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann’s biography. Markx discusses Hoffmann’s lifelong fascination with opera against the backdrop of eighteenth-century theater reform, the creation of national identity, contemporary performance practices and musical and aesthetic discourses as voiced by C. M. von Weber, A. W. Schlegel, Heine, and Wagner, among others. The book reconsiders the traditional view that German opera followed a deterministic trajectory toward Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk and reveals a cosmopolitan spirit in Hoffmann’s operatic vision, most notably exemplified by his controversial advocacy for Spontini in Berlin.

Hoffmann, E. T. A. --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, --- Gofman, Ėrnst Teodor Amedeĭ, --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus, --- Gofman, Ė. T. A. --- Hoffman, E. T. A., --- Huo-fu-man, En-ssu-tʻe Tʻai-ao-to-erh Wei-lien-huo-a-ma-tiu-ssu, --- Huo-fu-man, --- Hofmanis, E. T. A., --- Гофман, Эрнст Теодор Амадей, --- האפמאן, ע. ט. --- האפמען, ע.-ט --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus

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Hoffmann, E. T. A. --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Hoffmann, E. T. A. --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus --- Gofman, È. T. A. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, --- Gofman, Ėrnst Teodor Amedeĭ, --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus, --- Gofman, Ė. T. A. --- Hoffman, E. T. A., --- Huo-fu-man, En-ssu-tʻe Tʻai-ao-to-erh Wei-lien-huo-a-ma-tiu-ssu, --- Huo-fu-man, --- Hofmanis, E. T. A., --- Гофман, Эрнст Теодор Амадей, --- האפמאן, ע. ט. --- האפמען, ע.-ט --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Hoffmann, Ernst T. A. --- Biographie --- Hoffmann, E. T. A. --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus --- Gofman, Ėrnst Teodor Amedeĭ, --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus, --- Gofman, Ė. T. A. --- Hoffman, E. T. A., --- Huo-fu-man, En-ssu-tʻe Tʻai-ao-to-erh Wei-lien-huo-a-ma-tiu-ssu, --- Huo-fu-man, --- Hofmanis, E. T. A., --- Гофман, Эрнст Теодор Амадей, --- האפמאן, ע. ט. --- האפמען, ע.-ט

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This collection of essays addresses a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann's most significant works, examining them through the lens of "transgression." Transgression bears relevance to Hoffmann's life and professions in three ways. First, his official career path was that of jurisprudence; he was active as a lawyer, a judge and eventually as one of the most important magistrates in Berlin. Second, his personal life was marked by numerous conflicts with political and social authorities. Seemingly no matter where he went, he experienced much chaos, grief and impoverishment in leading his always precarious existence. Third, his works explore characters and concepts beyond the boundaries of what was considered aesthetically acceptable. "Normal" bourgeois existence was often juxtaposed to the lives of criminals, sinners, and other deviants, both within the spaces of the known world as well as in supernatural realms. He, perhaps more than any other author of the German Romantic movement, regularly portrayed the dark side of existence in his works, including unconscious psychological phenomena, nightmares, somnambulism, vampirism, mesmerism, Doppelgänger, and other forms of transgressive behavior. It is the intention of this volume to provide a new look at Hoffmann's very diverse body of work from numerous perspectives, stimulating interest in Hoffmann in English language audiences.

Hoffmann, E. T. A. --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, --- Gofman, Ėrnst Teodor Amedeĭ, --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus, --- Gofman, Ė. T. A. --- Hoffman, E. T. A., --- Huo-fu-man, En-ssu-tʻe Tʻai-ao-to-erh Wei-lien-huo-a-ma-tiu-ssu, --- Huo-fu-man, --- Hofmanis, E. T. A., --- Гофман, Эрнст Теодор Амадей, --- האפמאן, ע. ט. --- האפמען, ע.-ט --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus --- criminality --- transgression --- law --- German literature --- Romanticism --- dark side --- Kater Murr --- psychology