Wilhelm Meinhold, 'The Amber Witch'. Translated by Lady Duff Gordon
Wilhelm Meinhold's Gothic romance Maria Schweidler: Die Bernsteinhexe (1844) was a seminal German text in the literary landscape of Victorian England. The 1846 English translation by Lady Duff Gordon, entitled The Amber Witch, enjoyed widespread popular success, and Meinhold's suspenseful tale of a guileless young woman, unjustly accused of witchcraft, was hailed as the leading German novel of its day. Written in the style of a seventeenth-century chronicle, the story appealed to a readership which identified in Meinhold's work echoes of Daniel Defoe, Oliver Goldsmith and Walter Scott. This volume makes available for the first time in a criti…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78188-095-1
- EAN: 9781781880951
- Produktnummer: 19863917
- Verlag: Modern Humanities Research Association
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 174 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.9 cm 275 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 275
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