Francien Markx BRILL , Nov 6, 2015 - Literary Criticism - 496 pages 0 Reviews In E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera, Francien Markx investigates Hoffmann’s writings on opera, discovering in them a number of challenges to traditional narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann’s biography. Preview this book »