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Mayer's attention to music and its treatment in theoretical texts frame discussions of tales, and the inclusion of stories such as Tieck's Der getreue Eckart oder der Tannenhauser and Hoffmann's Der Kampf der Sanger is a particularly strong feature of her study. The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism is a pleasure to read. Dennis F. Mahoney, University of Vermont

Mayer carefully situates the Romantic aesthetics of fear between the notion of the sublime that developed in the 18th century and the notion of the uncanny that developed in the 20th century. This volume illustrates just how relevant Romanticism remains: danger and disorder cannot always be contained, so one must learn to handle fear. Highly recommended. Choice Mayer's attention to music and its treatment in theoretical texts frame discussions of tales, and the inclusion of stories such as Tieck's Der getreue Eckart oder der Tannenhauser and Hoffmann's Der Kampf der Sanger is a particularly strong feature of her study. The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism is a pleasure to read. Dennis F. Mahoney, University of Vermont

Mayer carefully situates the Romantic aesthetics of fear between the notion of the sublime that developed in the 18th century and the notion of the uncanny that developed in the 20th century. This volume illustrates just how relevant Romanticism remains: danger and disorder cannot always be contained, so one must learn to handle fear. Highly recommended. Choice Mayer's attention to music and its treatment in theoretical texts frame discussions of tales, and the inclusion of stories such as Tieck's Der getreue Eckart oder der Tannenhauser and Hoffmann's Der Kampf der Sanger is a particularly strong feature of her study. The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism is a pleasure to read. Dennis F. Mahoney, University of Vermont An overview here of Mayer's conclusions cannot do justice to her rigorous analyses and attention to nuance and contradiction. She does not shy away from complicating aesthetic history at the same time that she manages to resolve its paradoxes. Given such intricacy she takes pains at every juncture to label and number her insights, making The Aesthetics of Fear orderly and unfussy despite its length and intricacy. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory

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Paola Mayer is associate professor of European studies and German at the University of Guelph and author of Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme: Theosophy, Hagiography, Literature.

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