Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic.

El título de esta monografía remite de una manera directa a los objetivos del libro, abordados de una manera estructurada y complementaria, ya que parten del texto y alcanzan la representación del drama.

Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space, this book argues that to make such spaces accessible to modern readers they need to have information of the real domestic.

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole.

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 Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here.

Der dritte Band bietet einen detaillierten und erstmals vollständigen Überblick über das gesamte Prosaschaffen Goethes.

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context.

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.

This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical paradigms that accommodate women, popular culture, and postmodern theories of language as a potentially aggressive, injurious act.

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 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.

A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'.

It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.

This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers.

Miguel da Silva entführt Sie auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Welt von Miguel de Cervantes und seinem unsterblichen Werk, Don Quixote.

Weimar in seiner Glanzzeit.

Aus dem Inhalt: Auszüge aus den unveröffentlichten Exzerptheften; "Der wahre Brief ist seiner Natur nach poetisch"; Brotverwandlungen des Geistes - Phantasie bei Jean Paul; Der Dichter und sein "schleichend Volk" - Jean Paul nach 175 Jahren; Jean Pauls monströses Schreiben; Malerfiguren und Malergeschichten bei Jean Paul; "Blumen-Phantasien".

Alles, was du noch nicht über die Welt der »besonderen Kinder« wusstest:»Miss Peregrines Museum der besonderen Kinder« ergänzt die abenteuerliche Fantasy-Reihe von Bestsellerautor Ransom Riggs und ist ein unverzichtbarer Wegweiser durch die magische Welt – zauberhaft ausgestattet mit neuen geheimnisvollen Fotografien und Illustrationen.

Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett.

This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages.

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos.

Das Metzler Goethe Lexikon gibt in mehreren tausend Artikeln Antworten auf alle Fragen zu Goethes Lebensalltag, zu seinem Freundeskreis, seinen Reisen und Bekanntschaften, seinem schriftstellerischen und wissenschaftlichen Werk, seiner Nachwirkung bis heute: Alles über Goethe!

This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic.

Dieser Band bettet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks biblisches Heldengedicht Der Messias (1748–1773) in den Kontext der zeitgenössischen Diskussion um die sich erneuernde deutsche Literatur ein, in der das Epos als höchste literarische Gattung galt.

This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption.

David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists.

This book argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in French fiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine the prevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought.

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