This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with 'Whig poetry': a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty.
This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with 'Whig poetry': a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty.
Die vorliegende Studie beschaftigt sich mit den vielfaltigen Geistererscheinungen in Andreas Gryphius' Trauerspielen auf Grundlage des fruhneuzeitlichen Geisterwissens und der literarischen Tradition von Geisterdarstellungen in antiken, jesuitischen und niederlandischen Dramen sowie in Barockpoetiken.
To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes.
These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795.
Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire in light of contemporary theory.
Das Sonett konstituiert in seiner langen Geschichte immer wieder soziale Räume für spezifische Gemeinschaften – zwischen Lebenden, aber auch über die Jahrhunderte hinweg mit historischen Personen.
Walter Clyde Curry, a well-known student of Milton, analyzes the origins and unique construction of the grand stage upon which Milton presents the drama of human destiny in Paradise Lost.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course.
In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time.
Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen.
Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen.
This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley's contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context.
This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley's contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context.
Although Pedro Calderon de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comedias-118 in all-have remained unknown.
