The essays in this collection use the interpretative lens to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevance of Twilight and providing insights on how we can "e;read"e; popular culture to our best advantage.
A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours.
This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations.
The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in the 1790s political polemic that influenced so many Romantic poets and novelists.
This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature.
Ihrem universalistischen Denken selbst entsprechend bewegt sich die Epoche der Romantik im Spannungsfeld von Kunst, Ästhetik und Wirklichkeit; Kunstglauben, Mythologie und Theologie; von Naturgefühl, Naturwissenschaft und Naturphilosophie.
A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more.
Die um ein großes Kapitel zur jüdischen Aufklärung erweiterte und aktualisierte vierte Auflage des Standardwerks vermittelt einen Zugang zum Gesamtwerk Gotthold Ephraim Lessings und ergänzt mit einer Fülle von Interpretationen das aktuelle Lessingbild.
Die Autorin thematisiert die spanische Geschichte vor dem Hintergrund von Aufklärung, ökonomischer Reform und politischer Revolution des Bürgertums und ihre Artikulation im Werk Francisco Goyas.
This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form.
Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment.
Hölderlins Texte begreifen sich aus persönlicher Not wie gesellschaftlichen Missverhältnissen heraus als eine poetische wie politische Revolution der Sprache.
This collection of Coleridge's political and social writings includes the second "e;Lay Sermon"e; of 1817 and "e;In the Constitution of Church and State"e;, printed with only slight abridgements.
This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.
The rise of the novel paradigm-and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre-continues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel.
This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which constitute a source of enduring, if unconscious, pleasure.
