This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England.
McMaster's lively study looks at the various codes by which Eighteenth-century novelists made the minds of their characters legible through their bodies.
Knigge, Adolph, Freiherr: Prediger altväterischer Manieren oder Gesellschaftskritiker, Vielschreiber oder begabter Satiriker, jacobinischer Geheimbündler oder Förderer von Öffentlichkeit?
This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works.
This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century.
This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake's works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field.
In enger Verzahnung zwischen klassischem und frühromantischem Denken und durch die wechselseitige Beeinflussung zwischen literarischer und theoretischer Produktion entsteht eine Reihe von intellektuellen und emotionalen Modellen für eine Neukonzeption zentraler Kategorien kommunikativer Selbstvergewisserung, die eines gemeinsam haben: dass sie auf den Übergang zu einer funktional differenzierten Gesellschaft (Luhmann) und den damit einhergehenden Verlust der paternalen Metapher (Lacan) reagieren.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare.
Originating in the armed forces of the early 20th century, weapons based on chemical, biological or nuclear agents have become an everpresent threat that has not vanished after the end of the cold war.
Lee unfolds the stories of six women with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles and Napoleon against the grand narrative of England's 18th century empire building.
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays.
This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse inhabitants, taken from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects.