Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in developing a vision of political modernity that questions traditional narratives about the rise of liberalism and the decline of sovereign power.
This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works.
Die Natur des Menschen aus seiner Kulturgeschichte und diese umgekehrt aus der menschlichen Natur zu erschließen, bildet das Anliegen einer anthropologischen Geschichtsschreibung, deren Genese im „langen“ 18.
Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritanceoften impeded, disrupted inheritanceto the novel's rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period.
This book examines the development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's intellectual legacy in Britain and America from 1834 to 1934 by focusing on his late role as the Sage of Highgate and his programme of educating young minds who were destined for the higher professions (particularly preaching and teaching).
L'ampia raccolta di poesie intitolata Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott di Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747) celebra le meraviglie del mondo attraverso la minuziosa descrizione di ogni elemento della natura, ritratta nelle infinite variabili della sua bellezza e presentata quale generoso dono di un benevolo Creatore.
Ein kaleidoskopisches Porträt, eine Montage aus zurückhaltend kommentierten Merckschen und zeitgenössischen Schriften, Briefen und Dokumenten - der Freund und Mentor des jungen Goethe, der gefragte Mitarbeiter von Wielands "Merkur", der Autor, Kunsttheoretiker und Cicerone von Herzogin Anna Amalia.
In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, British writers saw the narrative ordering of experience as either superficial, dangerous or impossible.
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering.
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole.
Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field.
This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages.
John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance.
This book argues for the importance of blasphemy in shaping the literature and readership of Percy Bysshe Shelley and of the Romantic period more broadly.
Shakespeare and Disability Studies argues that an understanding of disability theory is essential for scholars, teachers, and directors who wish to create more inclusive and accessible theatrical and pedagogical encounters with Shakespeare's plays.
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.
Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility.
This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition.
