Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

The standard analytical approach to teaching Shakespeare does not tend to help students understand the theatricality of the Bard's plays and can leave them with an overly dry, disconnected view of Shakespeare.

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.

Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death.

Edition einer bisher nicht veröffentlichten Handschrift der "Leiden des jungen Werthers", die gegenüber allen nachfolgenden Drucken höchste Authentizität beansprucht.

Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.

This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics 'literature' and 'science' at a formative point in their early development.

This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre.

This book offers new analyzes of canonical texts, contextualizations of Romantic forms in relation to war, nationalism and empire, reassessments of neglected and marginalized writers and explorations of the relationship between form and reader.

This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries on all the major poems and prose works (including inspiration, composition and publication), Shelley's politics, relationships and travels, his representation in novels, drama, film and portraits, and his critical reception.

The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 -- a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention.

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

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 book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

Das Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv in Weimar umfasst heute etwa 110 größere und kleinere handschriftliche Nachlässe von Dichtern, Schriftstellern, Musikern, bildenden Künstlern und Gelehrten aus der Zeit vom 18.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today.

A great deal has been written about early modern temporality, both by scholars of Renaissance drama and historians of chronometry.

Gängiges Prüfungsthema: die Literatur Gottscheds, Klopstocks, Lessings und ihrer Zeitgenossen.

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 1998 erscheint erstmals unter neuer Herausgeberschaft: Günter Blamberger zeichnet für den Abhandlungsteil, Sabine Doering und Klaus Müller-Salget sind für den Rezensionsteil verantwortlich.

When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant.

Hölderlins Werk ist zu einem großen Teil im Manuskript überliefert, als schwer lesbarer und vielfach überarbeiteter Entwurf.

Lange verkannte die Nationalgeschichtsschreibung, wie bedeutend die geistige Präsenz der französischen Protestanten war, die in grosser Zahl nach Preussen geflüchtet waren.

Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period.

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.

This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century.

Geld dynamisiert Affekte und Affekte dynamisieren Geld.

British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation.

Romanticism is taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature.

This interdisciplinary collection of ten essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of "e;loneliness"e; in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern textual sources.

Ecocriticism - a firm branch of literary criticism by now - first emerged back in the 1980s, when literary scholars started to reassess Romantic texts in terms of their ecological merit.

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

What existed before there was a subject known as English?

Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2007 und 2008 u.

Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery.