Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

The Petrarchan revival in Romantic England was a unique phenomenon which involved an impressive number of scholars, translators and poets.

McMaster's lively study looks at the various codes by which Eighteenth-century novelists made the minds of their characters legible through their bodies.

This volume studies concrete examples of how female monastic spirituality acquires allegorical-symbolic connotations when representing itself, the world or life in the monasteries of the Hispanic area.

Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word?

Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära.

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination.

The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England.

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

Goethe und die Kunst.

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 throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age.

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

Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi.

Cultural Constructions of Madness in the Eighteenth Century deals with the (mis)representation of insanity through a substantial range of literary forms and figures from across the eighteenth century and beyond.

Diese Studie würdigt den zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geratenen Weimarer Dramaturgen, Bibliothekar, Schriftsteller und Publizisten Christian August Vulpius (1762–1827) als entscheidenden Wissens- und Kulturvermittler um 1800.

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.

Shakespeare's Princes of Wales spotlights the surprising abundance of princes of Wales--English and Welsh alike--appearing onstage in the late Tudor and early Stuart period.

Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present.

This book explores the contradictions of biography.

Band II von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes gilt den Jahren 1814 bis 1819.

Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent theoretical work.

Literatur von 1730 bis 1780.

Aus dem Inhalt: Mitteilungen über die laufende Editionsarbeit - Gerhard Sauder: "Komet" (en)-Autorschaft - Sabine Eickenrodt: Sinesische Sprachgitter.

El presente estudio persigue cumplir tres objetivos fundamentales: por una parte rastrear lo que Moratín dejó a su paso tras la producción de un reducido número de comedias tanto en el teatro como en la crítica; por otra, indagar qué fluctuaciones experimentan los conceptos de 'influencia' y 'legado' según el momento en que sean analizadas sus obras; por último, contribuir con un modesto estudio de su legado a una crítica que, en lo que respecta a Moratín y por extensión con aquello vinculado al neoclasicismo, ha sufrido con el tiempo una drástica simplificación.

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats's places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic.

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 book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant.

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 1766, the Moroccan ambassador Ahmad ibn al-Mahdi al-Ghazzal embarked on an unprecedented visit to Spain during a time of eased tensions between the two countries.

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

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.