This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'.
Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled.
This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form.
In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge.
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the 'long' Eighteenth-century.
Philipp von Zesen (1619-1689) schlägt in seinem 1662 in Amsterdam erschienenen Coelum astronomico-poeticum eine Brücke zwischen zeitgenössischer Astronomie und philologischer Mythenforschung.
Der Berliner Kunstwissenschaftler Horst Bredekamp hat in den späten 1970er und in den 1980er Jahren den zentralen Sammlungstyp der frühen Neuzeit, die Kunstkammer, wiederendeckt.
The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers.
Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A.
Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's plays, showing how both facilitate the critique of Renaissance aristocratic identity.
Edition einer bisher nicht veröffentlichten Handschrift der "Leiden des jungen Werthers", die gegenüber allen nachfolgenden Drucken höchste Authentizität beansprucht.
Wenn eine große Zahl von Menschen an einem Ort zusammenkommt, kann dies zufällig oder beiläufig geschehen wie in den Einkaufsstraßen der globalen Metropolen.
Im Zuge der Erarbeitung einer historisch-kritischen Edition sämtlicher Gedichte Paul Gerhardts (1607–1676) und der hierfür nötigen breit angelegten bibliographischen Recherchen gelang es kürzlich, eine bislang unbekannte, selbständig erschienene Druckschrift des Dichters aufzufinden.
Focusing on dramatic criticism, this book explores the self authorizing strategies of writers such as Jonson, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Thomas Rymer, Jeremy Collier and Joseph Addison.
