Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

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.

This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle.

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare's poetry and his position in the Romantic canon.

This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination.

This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period.

Jane Austen's minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed.

This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten "e;Fancy"e; of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth.

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

This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women's life writings, particularly those labeled "e;scandalous memoirs.

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

This book considers Keats's major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism.

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.

This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 1727 adaptation of the "e;lost"e; play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare.

This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction.

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 is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres.

This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper.

Mit diesem Realienband findet die Wanderbühnen-Edition im Rahmen der Ausgaben Deutscher Literatur nach mehr als 35 Jahren ihren Abschluss, nachdem Manfred Brauneck 1970-75 die wichtigsten Druckausgaben des 17.

Unter den vielbeschworenen "Frauen um Goethe", die als "Musen" in Goethes Werk ein poetisches Echo gefunden haben, waren gleich mehrere literarisch produktiv.