Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book views Romantic literature's discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses.

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker's Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.

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.

This book argues that cosmopolitanism was a feature of early American discourses of nation formation and eighteenth-century colonialism.

This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated by law.

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television's fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century.

This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period.

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.

No detailed description available for "e;Hollands leaguer"e;.

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.