Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres.

This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with an introduction, head notes and annotations that shed new light on the full context and significance of each piece.

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British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Cäcilia - Dichtung und Wahrheit" verfügbar.

The theater of early modern England was a disastrous affair.

Wir interpretieren nicht nur Texte und haben dafür eine besondere „hermeneutische Kunst“ (Schleiermacher) entwickelt,  sondern wir interpretieren auch die Welt um uns.

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error.

This chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.

This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends-and for their largely working-class readership-long after those works' original publication.

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

Im Gegensatz zu den bisher vorrangig werkorientierten Untersuchungen zur frühbarocken Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz (1621-1638) versteht sich dieser Band durch eine kulturgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung ihrer Poesie als Korrektur und Erweiterung früherer Forschungen.

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century.

Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800.

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This book analyzes Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from a political philosophy perspective.

The Rise of Animals and the Descent of Man illuminates compelling historical connections between a current fascination with animal life and the promotion of the moral status of non-human animals as ethical subjects deserving our attention and respect, and a deep interest in the animal as agent in eighteenth-century literate culture.

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.

This book analyzes Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from a political philosophy perspective.

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake's poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson.

Unter dem Titel Ars corrigendi diskutierten F.

Novalis wurde zum Inbegriff der Romantik, aber zugleich zur Verkörperung einer lebensfernen, verschwommenen Kunstauffassung.

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own.

Schiller gilt als Klassiker eingemauert in das Gefängnis seiner Überzeitlichkeit.

Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop.

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This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the man behind them (insofar as this is known), and the context in which he worked.

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own.

Shortlisted for the Tony Lothian PrizeOne of the Telegraph's 'Best Books of 2014'A gripping tale that enables us to see Shakespeare in a new light.