E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Orient: Romantic Aesthetics and the German Imagination
Joanna Neilly
Germanic Literatures 11•19 December 2016
including:
Chapter 1 Romantic Realities: Oriental Spaces and the Modern German Setting doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0b4.7 | ||
Chapter 3 Romantic Heroines: Oriental Women, Bourgeois Girls, and the Critique of the Feminine Ideal doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0b4.9 | ||
Chapter 5 Knowing the Orient: Scholars, Sages, and the Limits of Cultural Transfer doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0b4.11 | ||
- ‘A thorough and innovative monograph... E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Orient is a well-written study that serves an indispensable function as a comprehensive and careful survey of the theme of orientalism in Hoffmann’s works. Neilly is ready to criticize Hoffmann’s orientalism when necessary, but what is more important, she is also receptive to those aspects of Hoffmann that cannot be reduced to orientalist discourse or are even critical of orientalism.’ — Asko Nivala, European Romantic Review August 2018 (full text online)
- ‘The book is written in a clear, crisp style... It is rich, dense, and full of insight and overall an important and original addition not only to the body of Hoffmann scholarship; it also adds an important facet to our understanding of the Romantic preoccupation with the Orient.’ — Juergen Barkhoff, Modern Language Review 114.4, October 2019, 886-87 (full text online)
- ‘Hoffmann has until now been presented as something of a peripheral Orientalist, with more attention typically being paid to Schlegel and Novalis. Neilly’s searching study serves as a thoughtful corrective, revealing across a series of close readings the range and variety of Eastern motifs that are implied and appropriated in Hoffmann’s fictions, or—as is most often, and most intriguingly, the case—critically reflected upon, in a way that turns his ironic mirror back onto German aesthetics and indeed onto the notion of the fixed self.’ — Polly Dickson, German Studies Review 43.3, October 2020, 607-10 (full text online)
Modern Language Review 109.4•1 October 2014
including:
Review of Marie-Theres Federhofer and Jutta Weber, Korrespondenzen und Transformationen: Neue Perspektiven auf Adalbert von Chamisso doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.109.4.1128 | ||
Modern Language Review 110.2•1 April 2015
including:
Review of Madeleine Brook, Popular History and Fiction: The Myth of August the Strong in German Literature, Art and Media doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.110.2.0619 | ||
Modern Language Review 110.3•1 July 2015
including:
Review of Carolin John-Wenndorf, Der öffentliche Autor: Über die Selbstinszenierung von Schriftstellern doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.110.3.0918 | ||
Modern Language Review 112.2•3 April 2017
including:
Review of Márton Dornbach, Receptive Spirit: German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.112.2.0532 | ||
Modern Language Review 113.2•1 April 2018
including:
Review of B. Venkat Mani, Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.113.2.0435 | ||
Modern Language Review 114.2•1 April 2019
including:
Review of Sandra Richter, Eine Weltgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.114.2.0401 | ||
German Romanticism and Latin America: New Connections in World Literature
Edited by Jenny Haase and Joanna Neilly 
Transcript 23•29 January 2024
including:
Mapping Relations in World Literature: The German Romantic–Latin American Connection | ||
Franz Sternbald in the New World: Johann Moritz Rugendas and Travelling Painter Narratives from Latin America | ||
Myth
Edited by John McKeane and Joanna Neilly
MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 5•5 February 2011
including:
Melancholy
Edited by Joanna Neilly and Alex Stuart
MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 6•13 February 2012
including: