Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

Der Versuch einer Neueinordnung des wichtigen Dichters und Denkers Herder in seinem Verhältnis zur Weimarer Klassik.

The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare.

Joe Bray's careful analysis of Jane Austen's stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer.

This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry.

Shakespeare and Ecology is the first book to explore the topical contexts that shaped the environmental knowledge and politics of Shakespeare and his audiences.

This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres.

This collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major authors of the long English Romantic period with the arts.

This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism.

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.

Mit vorliegendem Band wird, einsetzend bei der Lyrik, die erstmalige wissenschaftliche Edition der geistlichen Schriften des prominenten Nürnberger Barockdichters Sigmund von Birken (1626‑1681) eröffnet.

Aus dem Inhalt: Hee-Ju Kim: Rituelle Identitätsbildung.

Known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge's manuscripts, letters, and other writings reveal an original thinker in dialogue with major literary and cultural figures of nineteenth-century England.

Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts.

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.

By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.

This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the world.

Recoge una selección de estudios sobre el desarrollo literario y la disputa entre saberes en el Siglo de Oro.

This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place.

This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake's manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working habits, and his influences.

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.