Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment.　 Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals,...

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it...

The eighteenth century produced more inventive actors than fine dramatists, and it displayed its actors to increasing advantage as theatre management became more expert, and stage design more ambitious. First published in 1972, the eleven papers...

The qualities and achievements of eighteenth century English literature have suffered denigration as a result of a prevailing Whig interpretation of literary history. It is the contention of this book, originally published in 1986, that an alternative...

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of...

Numerological patterning in literature, where structural details of a literary work are symbolically related to its meaning on the verbal level, was particularly common from the Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1973, the...

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft.

Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman's efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father's abandonment of and denial of marriage to her...

This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most...

This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that...

This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer...

Originally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which...

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: This term paper seeks to explore the creation of fictional worlds in the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Fachbereich für deutsche Sprache und Literatur), Veranstaltung: Weimarer Klassik, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The present bachelor thesis deals with the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin and its central question "Who is...

This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic.  It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture - in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans - in everyday life, together...

To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the...

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples - ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases - as well as death itself, contributors...

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and...

The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth-century. This study recovers and explores the contexts necessary to understand Fielding's subtle art, such as...

This study sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating writing for the stage during an era of censorship, the monopolistic royal theatres, and an emerging plebeian public sphere of drama located in London's new playhouses and "spouting...

This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was darf Satire? Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht, diese Frage basierend auf Heinrich Heines "Die Bäder von...

The present work fills a gap as it attempts to offer a history of erotic literature published in the United Kingdom. The word Study in the title is perhaps a bit exaggerated as the material is largely taken from the now well known bibliographies by...

Diese literaturwissenschaftliche Studie befasst sich mit Konzeptionen des Tiers in der Spätaufklärung. In der Anthropologie des 18. Jahrhunderts sind Tiere wichtige Grenzfiguren. Das gilt sowohl für ‚das Tier' als abstrakte Kategorie als auch für...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Worin besteht Hauke Haiens Schuld an dem tragischen Ende in Theodor Storms...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Literatur des Realismus, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ziel der vorliegenden Seminararbeit ist es, im Folgenden zu analysieren, inwiefern...

This book illuminates how the 'long eighteenth century' (1660-1800) persists in our present through screen and performance media, writing and visual art. Tracing the afterlives of the period from the 1980s to the present, it argues that these emerging...

British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers' attitudes towards, and...

This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women's life writings, particularly those labeled "scandalous memoirs." It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have...

This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 1727 adaptation of the "lost" play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold...

This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts - by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley...

In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Germanistik, vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft),...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Deutsche Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Schriftstellerbild, das Theodor Storm als einen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Philosophie und Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Zu den Haremsnovellen, die ich Dir vorgestern schrieb,...

Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes’s great novel (the first novel), Don Quixote (1605; 1615), continues to fascinate readers and generate debate about key questions. Were the efforts of the deluded hidalgo and his corpulent squire to...

The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi...

Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from history. Drawn from sources throughout the world, the collection ranges from earthy medieval jokes about...

It explores how five 18th-century liberal French political authors - Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de la Bretonne - constructed a "political zoology" informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history and...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Deutsche Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als Fallbeispiel für eine Analyse von Komik, die im ersten Teil...