How Theodor Herzl initiated the serialized publication of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics - German - Literature Works language: English abstract: This paper details how Theodor Herzl initiated the serialized publication of Wilhelm Jensen''s Pompeian fantasy GRADIVA in the Viennese Newspaper NEUE FREIE PRESSE in June/July 1902. This gothic novel published in book form in 1903 came to the attention of Sigmund Freud who famously analysed it in his Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen''s GRADIVA (1907).