Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain gathers twelve essays by international scholars focusing on the translation of Petrarch's vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) into English, from the Tudor age to the mid-seventeenth century (and beyond)...

Karoline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attention to her poems, prose writings and plays reveals Günderrode's remarkable engagement with the...

This work includes the complete authoritative text with biographical & historical contexts, critical history and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives.

This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope's verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. The book enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope's...

William Blake's Divine Love explores the hermeneutical possibilities of Oothoon's self-annihilation and the epistemological potential of her visual copulation by establishing an artistic and hagiographical heritage.

Cultural Constructions of Madness in the Eighteenth Century deals with the (mis)representation of insanity through a substantial range of literary forms and figures from across the eighteenth century and beyond. Chapters cover the representation,...

This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in...

The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between...

How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the...

The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William...

Revolutionary thinking at the end of the Eighteenth century prompted major English writers to probe the riddle of human consciousness and the ways in which it might differ from 'Being' in a divine or universal sense. In the first of two studies, John...

The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its...

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Deutsch - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ich misstraue der heutigen Sicht auf die Literatur vergangener Epochen. Heute gilt Fontane als der Größte, aber zu seiner Zeit las man...

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in...

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: The magazine article "Lazarus Lotus Eating" is often mentioned in academic...

This book is the first full-length theoretical and historical study of the relation between early Gothic fiction and an emerging modern rule of law. The work identifies not only a political and cultural, but also an ontological relation between what...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Romanisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Naturalismo Espiritual, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: gut, Universität Wien (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: PS Neuere Deutsche Literatur - Kriminalliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,8, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Freitod und Todessehnsucht als Lebens- und Zeitgefühl im Umkreis Rilkes",...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Universität des Saarlandes, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit widmet sich als Editionsanalyse der Untersuchung der...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Forschungsarbeit untersucht die Verschränkung der Existenz eines Mädchens mit dem...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Schon allein durch seine Namensänderung - von Ernst Theodor Wilhelm zu Ernst Theodor Amadeus - wird der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,7, Universität Hamburg, Veranstaltung: 52-251 DIGITAL: ‚Wie bist du, Weib?' - Frauenbilder um 1900, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der 1895 veröffentlichte...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This term paper researches into the pervasion of horror in H.G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds". The story's thrilling...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Gattungen, Note: 1,0, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, es das 26. Märchen der Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm inhaltlich zu analysieren...

This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends-and for their largely working-class readership-long after those works' original publication. It examines how the literature of...

This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and...

Joe Bray's careful analysis of Jane Austen's stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer. Countering those who have...

The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant 'native' literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence...

This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John...

This book views Romantic literature's discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel...

This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central...

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres...

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British...

Although 1660 to some extent marks a turning point, this comprehensive book (originally published in 1992) demonstrates an underlying continuity within the period of Stuart rule. It presents thinkers and writers before and after 1660 responding to...

"A sign we are, uninterpreted. Painless we are and have almost / lost the language in a foreign country." Thus begins the second version of Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn dedicated to goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. "Hölderlin and the Consequences" wants to...

The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced...

Jane Austen's minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions...

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at...