Building on recent work on Victorian print culture and the turn toward material historical research in modernist studies, this collection extends the frontiers of scholarship on the 'Atlantic scene' of publishing, exploring new ways of grappling with the rapidly changing universe of print at the turn of the twentieth century.
Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism-blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm-early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior.
Presenta una serie de artículos que se acercan a las diferentes fases de escritura y reescritura en la obra de Calderón y rehacen el sinuoso camino entre el borrador y la imprenta, entre la pluma y las tablas, proporcionando así un variado panorama de posibilidades tanto a los estudiosos de los procesos creativos como a los editores de hoy.
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.
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.
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.
Die Deutschen Gesellschaften waren eine Sozietätsbewegung, die von den mitteldeutschen und protestantischen Universitäten und Gelehrtenschulen ausging.
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.
Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives.
Die Arbeit befasst sich mit spezifischen poetischen und ästhetischen Verfahren im Werk Friedrich Schillers, mittels derer abstrakte, sich eindimensionalen Darstellungsweisen entziehende, gesellschaftliche Strukturen sichtbar gemacht werden.