In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism.
Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period.
Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen.
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.
Este libro contiene la primera edición crítica de un certamen poético mercedario del siglo XVII novohispano, así como un extenso estudio preliminar que esclarece la trascendencia literaria, histórica y cultural de la obra.
From the author of "e;Celestial Sleuth"e; (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings.
This volume explores 'the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge' (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, interpretation and reception; his life, troubled marriage and fatherhood, conversation, changing intellectual contexts and legacy.
The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists.
Bartholomäus Ringwaldt (1530/31-1599) gehört zu den markantesten Schriftstellern lutherisch-protestantischer Provenienz aus dem letzten Drittel des 16.
Se estudian 148 inventarios de bibliotecas particulares del siglo XVII, cuyos propietarios pertenecían a distintas clases sociales y áreas geográficas.
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.
Der Alphabetische Katalog, der mehr als 2600 Einträge verzeichnet, dient der Erschließung des schriftstellerischen und epistolographischen Lebenswerks Zelters und Nachforschungen nach dem Verbleib der Bibliothek der Berliner Singakademie: der größte Teil der Sammlung an Büchern, Handschriften und Musikalien ging nach Zelters Tod an diese Institution über und gilt seit 1945 als verschollen.
Dieses Buch rekonstruiert erstmals die faszinierende Geschichte einer Reihe fiktiver Totengespräche, die zwischen 1729 und 1734 – anonym oder unter Pseudonym und sämtlich als Flugschriften veröffentlicht – in Deutschland erschienenen sind.
A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.
British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers' attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern Greece.
This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia.
Erstmals werden hier zwei frühneuzeitliche Jedermann-Dramen gemeinsam vorgelegt und einem breiteren Publikum erschlossen: die Hecastus-Komödie des niederländischen Humanisten Georgius Macropedius und ihre frühneuhochdeutsche Bearbeitung durch Hans Sachs.
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.
In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, British writers saw the narrative ordering of experience as either superficial, dangerous or impossible.
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.