Is that the dude who did Struwwelpeter? AKA "Shockheaded Peter"? No, upon googling, I find that it is a different Hoffman. Man, E. T. A. Hoffman definitely invented the genre... she could have been reading that, or as I suspect she learned French, she could have been reading Dumas and Verne. It would be interesting (to me) to know such a thing, actually. What was the furniture of her mind before economics and theory, basically?

Also -- have YOU read any of the C. S. Lewis sci fi I cite above, and particularly, That Hideous Strength? Because I wonder about that Althusser thing.