Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen's presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was...

This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge. This...

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with 'Whig poetry': a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the...

This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and...

This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen's narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work. It grounds her writing in the Enlightenment philosophy of selfhood,...

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was...

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of...

Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This...

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts. Covering several genres, such as novels, poetry, autobiography and...

This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "early Anthropocene" in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water,...

This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death.  Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising...

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that miscellanies are a distinctive kind of literary collection and that...

This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines...

This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works. Probing the realms of...

This is the long-wanted essential modern edition of William Beckford's Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek. The text of this edition is a new translation by the leading Beckford specialist. It corrects many earlier errors and presentations of Beckford's...

Wilhelm Hauffs Kunstmärchen "Das kalte Herz" hat bis auf den heutigen Tag nichts von seinem Zauber eingebüßt. An Aktualität mag es sogar noch gewonnen haben. Die bekannte Geschichte von Peter Munk, dem Köhlerjungen aus dem Schwarzwald, der sich nach Geld...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Philosophische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Kleist, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Hier...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Slawische Länder, Note: 1,3, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Slavisches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Thema der Magisterarbeit zu diesem Werk ist die Beschäftigung mit...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Salzburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit ausgewählten literarischen Werken E.T.A. Hoffmanns und deren utopischer...

Herrschsüchtige Ehefrauen, wollüstige Jungfern, hässliche Vetteln, männerquälende Hexen und pseudogelehrte Frauen begegnen häufig in satirischen Schriften der Frühen Neuzeit. Indem sie misogyne Topoi und Traditionen aufgreifen und aktualisieren, erweisen...

The rise of Enlightenment philosophical and scientific thought during the long eighteenth century in Europe and North America (c. 1688-1815) sparked artistic and political revolutions, reframed social, gender, and race relations, reshaped attitudes...

Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one's own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.

This book explores the emergence of literary history and criticism in the Americas during the 18th century, focusing on natural history as a matrix for literary history and criticism, the geopolitical functions of literary criticism in the periodical...

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a...

As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts. During his early acting years in a touring troupe, the English theatres had been closed by the Civil Wars, but after 1660...

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the Atlantic.

The group volume distinguishes itself by its multidisciplinary, comparative approach and by the network of relationships it weaves between the various European languages and cultures. The study takes shape from its different viewpoints and in its diverse...

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 2,0, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Intention der Hausarbeit ist es, die Funktion und Bedeutung des Tintoretto-Gemäldes für Theodor...

John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance. Clare's career has been presented as a disaster of editorial heavy-handedness, condescension, a poor...

The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore...

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history intertwines cultural, political, philosophical, religious, and commercial influences with literary production to create new ways of reading,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Französisch - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Romanistik), Veranstaltung: Proseminar : George Sand, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich...

Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Familienkonflikte [...] gibt es seit Menschengedenken". (Matt, 1997) Sie...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Allgemeines, Note: 2,0, Universität Erfurt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie der Titel bereits ankündigt, gehören die Duineser Elegien zu der Gattung der Elegien. Auch die klagende...

Pre-University Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 15 Punkte (1+), , language: English, abstract: In this essay, the author Jessica Santosa Hidajat discusses the Southern Gothic...

Scientific Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: -, , course: Dr. Rafiq Zakaria Campus; Ph.D, language: English, abstract: Religiosity has probably a definite place in Shelley's works. He has...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Veranstaltung: Die Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm zwischen Poesie und Erziehung, Sprache:...

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: Worldly Romanticism, language: English, abstract: In this essay...

In inviting a rethinking of ideas of foreignness and selfhood, this book explores Sino-British encounters in eighteenth-century English literature, providing detailed critical and literary analysis of individual texts pertaining to China from this period.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Masterarbeit...