Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles.

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen.

Information Text: In the early modern period, numerous texts deal with professions by presenting the knowledge required in each case, individual fields of activity, purpose, origin and prestige.

70 Schillerparodien von 1789 bis zur Gegenwart, unter den Parodisten so bekannte Namen wie August Wilhelm Schlegel, Carl Maria von Weber, Heinrich Heine, Adolf Glaßbrenner, Robert Walser und Thorsten Becker: ein diebisches Lesevergnügen.

Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge, were life-long friends.

Malone, in the eighteenth century, came up with a method for determining Shakespeare''s chronology that was wrong: we have been using it ever since.

In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia.

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene.

Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema.

This book presents a longitudinal study of cultural influence on psychiatric disorders, from late imperial China to contemporary China, drawing on both reviews and lab results to do so.

Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public.

Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works.

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery.

Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world.

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest.

This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

'My revenge is just begun!

Über das Hässliche lässt sich nur in Beispielen sprechen: Mit ihnen betritt man die Systemgebäude der Ästhetik durch einen Seiteneingang, der über deren Ausschlüsse und Grenzen letztlich mitten hinein führt in die normative Konstitution des modernen Geschmacks.

Das Goethe-Jahrbuch, Publikationsorgan der Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar, bietet Abhandlungen, Miszellen und Rezensionen, Berichte aus dem Leben der Goethe-Gesellschaft und eine jährliche Goethe-Bibliographie.