First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert.
In exemplarischen Einzelanalysen zeigt der Autor, daß die versepischen Texte Christoph Martin Wielands aus verschiedenen Phasen seines Schaffens als Beiträge zur literarischen Aufklärung zu verstehen sind.
This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake's poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson.
As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions.
La publicación forma parte de la Monumenta Landivariana, serie mayor, cuyo objetivo es ofrecer estudios generales y especializados en torno a la obra poético-literaria de Rafael Landívar.
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world.
Friedrich Schlegels Lebenslauf - von der revolutionsbegeisterten Jugend über die Jenaer Jahre bis zur Konversion zum Katholizismus - spiegelt die ganze Romantik.
Austen'sUnbecomingConjunctions is a contemporary study of all Jane Austen's writings focusing on her representation of women, sexuality, the material objects, and linguistic patterns by which this sexuality was expressed.
This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies.
This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness.
A classic, accessible guide to the plays of Shakespeare by a legendary teacher and scholar Centuries after they were originally performed, the plays of Shakespeare continue to inspire, entertain, and awe audiences and readers today.
A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.
This study utilises John Donne's works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.
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.
Dieser Band bettet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks biblisches Heldengedicht Der Messias (1748–1773) in den Kontext der zeitgenössischen Diskussion um die sich erneuernde deutsche Literatur ein, in der das Epos als höchste literarische Gattung galt.
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 Cooper, the film-maker John Ford, and actor John Wayne.
Rhetorik ist seit ihren Anfängen dem Vorwurf der Manipulation ausgesetzt, gegen den schon in der Antike eine ‚Rhetorik im Dienst der Vernunft‘ aufgeboten worden ist.
This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.
Horst Albert Glaser, Professor für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Essen, beschäftigt sich seit mehr als dreißig Jahren mit der Person und dem Werk des Marquis de Sade.
How the study of Shakespeare's legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean In the field of adaptation studies today, the idea of reading an adapted text as "e;faithful"e; or "e;unfaithful"e; to its original source strikes many scholars as too simplistic, too conservative, and too moralizing.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), Philosoph, Mathematiker, Historiker und Diplomat, verbrachte die letzten vierzig Jahre seines Lebens in Hannover.
In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right.