Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form.

The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century.

Fichte mit Goethes Augen gelesen.

This book deals with Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture.

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

The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms.

Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers.

What happens when we engage with fictional characters?

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated.

This study utilises John Donne's works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.

Goethe gesamt.

A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own.

Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period.

Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material.

In der Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung gilt übereinstimmend, dass im Gegensatz zur allgemeinen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung eine verlässliche Materialbasis noch vollständig fehlt und die vorhandenen Lücken nur schrittweise geschlossen werden können.

Edición de "La devoción de la cruz", comedia religiosa con ribetes de tragedia que ve la luz en la Primera parte (1636) de Calderón.

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape.

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects.

This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination.

This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and work of William Shakespeare.

Editors of Shakespeare's Complete Works must decide what to include.

Goethe lebt!

La publicación forma parte del proyecto Monumenta Landivariana, serie menor, la cual busca divulgar la obra poética del P.

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker's Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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.

This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction.

This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present.

This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies.

Mit der Freisetzung von Individualität im 18.

Im Frankreich des 17.

Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more.