Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis
Dickson, Polly
Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European literature Offers the first full set of comparative readings of works by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac, arguing that Balzac was a keen and sensitive reader of Hoffmann's works Introduces little-known primary materials by these two canonical authors, including visual material such as a hand-drawn line copied out by bot...