Dorothea E. von Mücke is Professor of Germanic Languages at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship and the Public (2015). While her research primarily focuses on the European Enlightenment, she is also interested in literature’s relationship to the visual arts.
Dorothea E. von Mücke
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Writing on Public Books
“The Sandman” @200
In 1816, only four years after the Brothers Grimm brought out a collection of fairy tales carefully selected and edited for the use of children, E. T. A. Hoffmann published his “Nutcracker and Mouse King.” To the extent that Hoffmann’s fairy tale introduced rather weird, even scary elements, his story departed significantly from what the […]
