Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it.

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

Durante los siglos XVI y XVII los sueños asumieron un rol protagónico en la cultura occidental, dejando un vasto corpus de literatura dedicada al tema.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity.

This book uses the theme of 'debatable lands', to explore aspects of writing in the Romantic period.

Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.

This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808.

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy.

Joe Bray's careful analysis of Jane Austen's stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer.

Die hier versammelten Beiträge zielen auf einen grundsätzliche Klärung der Mentalitäts- und Identitätsgeschichte der deutschen literarischen Intelligenz ab und sind damit nicht nur von literaturgeschichtlichem, sondern auch von sozialwissenschaftlichen Interesse.

Mit diesem Band findet eine Pommern, Ostpreußen, dem Baltikum, Westpreußen und Schlesien gewidmete Sequenz ihren Abschluss.

This volume deals with matters of public religious expression and aspects of interconfessionality in the case of the Greek Orthdox clergyman and scholar Gerasimos Vlachos (1607-1685) from Candia, Crete.

George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together.

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period.

The central claim of Minds in Motion is that British travel writing of the long eighteenth century functions as an epistemological playing field where authors test empiricist models of engagement with the world while simultaneously seeking out the role of the self and the imagination in producing knowledge.

Literatur von 1730 bis 1780.

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

Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility.

This book argues for the importance of blasphemy in shaping the literature and readership of Percy Bysshe Shelley and of the Romantic period more broadly.

This book considers Keats's major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism.

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality.

Blake's 'Human Form Divine' has long commanded the spotlight.