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This book is a biography of the German artist August Lafontaine, written by the art historian Johann Gottfried Gruber. The book includes a portrait of Lafontaine and provides a comprehensive overview of his life and work, including his contributions to the field of portraiture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Die leser- und sozialgeschichtlich fundamentierte Monographie August Lafontaines (1758-1831), der zu Lebzeiten "berühmter als Wolfgang Goethe" (Heinrich Heine) war, heute jedoch gründlich vergessen ist, rekonstruiert und analysiert auf der Basis bisher unerschlossener Quellen Leben, Werk und Wirkung dieses frühen Bestsellerautors, der dank seiner enormen Produktivität im Zuge der Leserevolution als erster deutscher Autor ein Leben als freier, marktabhängiger Schriftsteller führen konnte. Mit seinen seriell fabrizierten, spätaufklärerisch tingierten, im Kern aber vor allem empfindelnden und theologisch unterfütterten Familien- und Liebesromanen fand Lafontaine großen Zuspruch vor al...
An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.
The essays in this volume address a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s most significant works, examining them through the lens of “transgression.” His writings, perhaps more than those of any other German Romantic, portrayed the “dark side” of existence, which the following essays investigate for an Anglophone audience.