Enchantment, possession and the uncanny in E.T.A. Hoffmann's ‘The Sandman’

• Main Author: Dawson, Terence.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103176; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16958
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

All enchantment is a form of possession: as love or religious belief, it can invest a person’s life with significance; but as revenge or fanaticism, it can also bring about a fundamental change in the subject’s personality. Few writers have explored the tension between these different forms of encha...