Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

What do we mean by the term 'Gothic'?

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Landschaften, Gesteinsformationen, die Vielfalt der Mineralien.

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 desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror.

A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own.

In this provocative and incisive book the author re-examines Samuel Johnson's major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation.

This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change.

Goethe und die Naturforschung.

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers - Yosa Buson (1716-83), Ema Saiko (1787-1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), and Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) - experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting.

The poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in which he lived.

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.

Die Werke von E.

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America.

Die Untersuchung unterzieht die landlaufige Forschungsmeinung, Frauen im Mittelalter hatten unter starker Misogynie zu leiden gehabt und sich nur selten in der Offentlichkeit zu Wort melden konnen, einer kritischen Analyse.

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.

Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten im deutschen Archivwesen des 20.

This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the world.

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

Die Arbeit befaßt sich mit Formen und Verfahren der Textvernetzung am Beispiel wissenschaftlicher Fachliteratur.

A collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies for the teaching of adaptation and eighteenth-century textsThe eighteenth century was a golden age of adaptation: classical epics were adapted to contemporaneous mock-epics, life writing to novels, novels to plays, and unauthorized sequels abounded.

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK.

Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period.

How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force?