Author: Strauss, Jonathan
Title: Subjects of Terror: Nerval, Hegel, and the Modern Self
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1998). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiv,376 pp. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: History & Romantic Self-Identity; Death-Based Subjectivity; Nerval in Context: The Authority of Madness; Playing with Death: Les Faux Saulniers; The Subject Writes After Its Own Death: "Le Christ aux Oliviers"; The Lyric First Person: "El Desdichado"; Aurélia: The Signs of Others; Death & Its Alternatives.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, French Literature, Gerard de Nerval, Romanticism, Romantic Poetry, Psychoanalysis, Self Psychoanalytic, Idealist Philosophy, G.W.F. Hegel