Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory.

British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as 'slaves of the sultan', yet they also made fine distinctions between them.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Gedichte, Geistliche Oden und Lieder" verfügbar.

This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing.

This book provides an expansive view of celebrity's intimate dimensions.

This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience.

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "e;presence"e; in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.

When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation.

This radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne examines the work of the greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope.

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists.

Die besondere Auffassung von Sprache lässt den Dichter Kleist gleichzeitig als Grenzgänger zwischen spätaufklärerischen und romantischen Positionen wie auch als Vorläufer der Moderne hervortreten.

In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy.

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How predictable is a soccer game, what good does the change of a coach, which role does the salary of soccer players have?

This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century.

Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word?

Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi.

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter.

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

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Gängiges Prüfungsthema: die Literatur Gottscheds, Klopstocks, Lessings und ihrer Zeitgenossen.

This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Holderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.

Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman.

Die Nebenparabasen in den Komödien des Aristophanes.

Lange verkannte die Nationalgeschichtsschreibung, wie bedeutend die geistige Präsenz der französischen Protestanten war, die in grosser Zahl nach Preussen geflüchtet waren.

This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition.

The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain.

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