Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction.

Part of a series which follows the outline of writers' working lives, aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing.

By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.

New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives.

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.

English lit scholar Glenda Hudson examines Jane Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the dramatic social and historical changes in the late 18th century--and also analyzes the incest motif in numerous works of the period.

These two volumes offer a selection of the papers held at the conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) in 2003.

A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine.

In Shakespeare's England, credit was synonymous with reputation, and reputation developed in the interplay of language, conduct, and social interpretation.

Im Frankreich des 17.

Lessing als Schlüsselfigur der Aufklärung.

Der Band liefert eine ausführliche Einführung in eine zentrale Epoche der deutschen Literatur.

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context.

This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux's The Gentleman's Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694.

Examines spaces of inner life in eighteenth-century England to shed new light on interiority in literature and visual and material culture.

Auf den Spuren Kleists.

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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 transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

Everything we know about Shakespeare is preconceived by print, which occlude rather than clarify our thinking about performance.

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Italienische Spieltexte I" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Diderot - Entoptische Farben" verfügbar.

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Fichte mit Goethes Augen gelesen.

Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published works of fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), three works never before reprinted, twelve period writings about Stoker, and the rare 1913 estate sale catalogue of his personal library.

Die Legende des Golems, eines aus Lehm geschaffenen Wesens, das durch mystische Rituale zum Leben erweckt wird, ist tief in der jüdischen Tradition verwurzelt.

This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular "e;theory of fiction,"e; especially in relation to the novel.

The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture.

Der Band versammelt zwanzig Goethe-Studien von Hans-J.

This book argues that cosmopolitanism was a feature of early American discourses of nation formation and eighteenth-century colonialism.

How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain?

This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory.

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.