Doppelganger: Double Visions in German Literature
Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkä (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal, but nonetheless significant, manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen.
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Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkä (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal, but nonetheless significant, manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen.
List of IllustrationsAbbreviations1Theories and Practices of the Doppelganger12Life, Death, and Birth of the Doppelganger in Jean Paul563Hoffmann's Chronic Dualisms1134Cases of Double Trouble in Kleist1955Double Agencies in the Novelle of Poetic Realism2326Gothic Revivals: The Doppelganger in the Age of Modernism317Bibliography358Index371
