The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern period to the present day.
This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages.
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.
Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance-often impeded, disrupted inheritance-to the novel's rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period.
The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant 'native' literary culture until the postcolonial period.
In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.
Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.
In der frühen Neuzeit beschäftigen sich zahlreiche Texte mit Berufen, indem sie das jeweils erforderliche Wissen, einzelne Aufgabenfelder, Zweck, Ursprung und Prestige darstellen.
Das "Kleist-Jahrbuch" 2002 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2001 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Judith Hermann, des Vertrauensmanns der Jury, Michael Naumann, und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft, Günter Blamberger, und bietet u.
Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia.
This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "e;early Anthropocene"e; in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
En las páginas de La cultura de las máscaras Irene Gómez Castellano desvela por vez primera el lado más íntimo y vacilante del "hombre ilustrado", iluminando algunos de sus misterios: ¿Por qué a los que perseguían a los borrachos con leyes y decretos les gustaba deambular poéticamente en fantasías dionisíacas?
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the early texts - wide-ranging introduction discusses the play's historical contexts, political significance, characters, sources, and language - detailed stage history designed to meet the needs of students and theatre professionals - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, allusions, staging, and much else - illustrated with production photographs, historical portraits, textual facsimiles, and map - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare' Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
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.
In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism.
