Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides an original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.Trade Review"An intelligently constructed volume; a fine collection that is both readable and enjoyable."Professor Aileen Douglas, School of English, Trinity College Dublin'The general editors of the series… hope that these publications will further promote further innovative and an interdisciplinary approach to global eighteenth-century studies... Their aim has certainly been achieved in Pen, Print and Communication, a well-produced, enlightening, and attractively illustrated volume.'Rory T Cornish, Journal of British Studies'Highly recommended as an introduction to the important topic of the rich and complex roles of handwriting and print in the social and cultural melting-pot of the eighteenth century.' John Hinks, Midland HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction, Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick 1. The Growth of Copperplate Script: Joseph Champion and The Universal Penman, Nicolas Barker 2. Authorship in script and print: the example of engraved handwriting manuals of the eighteenth century, Giles Bergel 3.Writing and the preservation of cultural identity: the penmanship manuals of Zaharija Orfelin, Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo 4. ‘The most beautiful hand’: John Byrom and the aesthetics of shorthand, Timothy Underhill 5. An Archaeology of the Letter Writing: the correspondence of aristocratic women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, Ruth Larsen 6. Private pleasures and portable presses: do-it-yourself printers in the eighteenth-century, Caroline Archer-Parré 7. Performance and print culture: two eighteenth-century actresses and their image control, Joanna Jarvis 8. Script, print, and the public/private divide: Sir David Ochterlony’s dying words, Callie Wilkinson 9. Identity, enigma, assemblage: John Baskerville’s Vocabulary, or Pocket Dictionary, Lynda Muggleston 10. Marigolds not manufacturing: plants, print and commerce in eighteenth-century Birmingham, Elaine Mitchell 11. Tourist Experience and the Manufacturing Town: James Bisset’s Magnificent Directory of Birmingham, Jenni Dixon 12. Forging an identity on the periphery of the Enlightenment: Malta in print in the eighteenth-century, Robert Thake 13. Perceptions of England: the production and reception of English theatrical publications in Germany and the Netherlands during the eighteenth century, Emil Rybczak 14. Print Culture and Distribution: Circulating the Federalist Papers in post-Revolutionary America, Peter Pellizzari 15. The serif-less letters of John Soane, Jon Melton Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisComedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade; both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed in Amsterdam in the fall of 1720, as the bubble in the Netherlands was bursting. Comedy and Crisis also contains our translation of the extensive apparatus prepared by C.H.P. Meijer (Introduction and notes) for his 1892 edition of these plays. The current editors have updated the footnotes and added six new critical essays by contemporary literary and historical scholars that contextualize the two plays historically and culturally. The book includes an extensive bibliography and index. The materials assembled in Comedy and Crisis are a rich resource for cultural, historical, and literary students of the history of finance and of eighteenth-century studies.Trade Review'In providing us with Lengendijk’s plays in English translation and with scholarly commentary, Goggin and De Bruyn have made a contribution to Mennonite studies as well as to the wider scholarly world.'Keith L. Sprunger, The Mennonite Quarterly Review 'Comedy and Crisis, with illustrations that are illuminating here and there, provides a multifaceted overview and insight into the (inter)national context in which within which we must place and understand Langendijk's texts.’ Anna de Haas, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History Translated from Dutch, ‘Comedy and Crisis, met hier en daar verhelderende illustraties, een veelzijdig overzicht van en inzicht in de (inter)nationale context waarbinnen we de teksten van Langendijk moeten plaatsen en begrijpen.’'The wealth of knowledge that these essays bring together around the two pieces is impressive. They show that research at the intersection of cultural and literary history on the one hand and economic history on the other has been very productive in recent years... Hopefully, with this publication, international interest will reach a new peak.' Kornee van der Haven, Low Countries Historical Review Translated from Dutch, 'De rijkdom aan kennis die deze essays rond de twee stukken samenbrengen is indrukwekkend. Ze laten zien dat het onderzoek op het snijvlak van cultuur- en literatuurgeschiedenis enerzijds en economische geschiedenis anderzijds de afgelopen jaren heel productief is geweest... Hopelijk zal die internationale interesse met deze publicatie een nieuw hoogtepunt beleven.'

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Book SynopsisEducating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850 explores how the public and endowed grammar schools and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge trained some of the most important writers, critics, and public figures of the Romantic period. These institutions are recognized here as intentional partners and are discussed collectively as the “Anglo-classical academy”. The book shows how they not only schooled students in “classics, maths, and divinity” but also in accepted social behaviours, cultural values, political beliefs, and literary tastes. In so doing, this academy gave shape to the literature and spirit of the age. By discussing the schools and the universities together and by focusing upon pedagogies and daily life as well as the texts and topics studied, this book shows as no other has done how writers and readers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries became such fluent linguists, skilled prosodists, and perceptive critics. As each chapter explores and comments upon the relational, intellectual, and cultural aspects of the Anglo-classical educational experience, it directs readers’ attention to the ways in which this information can be used to reread texts, reassess certain Romantics’ literary careers, and launch new lines of research.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction England’s Public and Grammar Schools: First Lessons England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Grammar, Memory, and Composition England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Classical Literature, Rhetoric, Oratory, and Composition Training Religious Instruction and Worship in the Anglo-Classical Academy Oxford and Cambridge in the Romantic Period: “Operose ignorance” or “Good habits, and the principles of virtue and wisdom”? University Life The Curriculum of the English “Confessional” University: Heroes, Shepherds, and “Holding acquaintance with the stars" Pedagogies of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period The Educators of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period Leadership at Oxford and Cambridge Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis volume plays on the double meaning of network in German and European Studies: configurations of people, objects, and texts as well as network analysis, the dominant Digital Humanities (DH) method featured in the book. Contributions from art history, history of the book, history, literary studies, and musicology contemplate the strengths and weakness of treating the period 1789-1810 as either continuous with or a departure from the centuries before and after by examining different facets of the longer period 1760-1830. While many chapters investigate German material, nearly all expand into other European cultures and cover important regions, protagonists, objects and constellations of bi-and multilingual life. They intersect Italian, French, and English networks and reach across the Atlantic into New England. The period’s bookends indicate a threshold or terminus for traditions, institutions, and national identities in Europe: marking the French Revolution (and its effects across the continent culminating on the Wars again Napoleon) and at times reactionary responses with delineation of national, regional, or group identities, respectively, and perhaps most pronounced in the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna (1814-15). Overall, the collection of eleven chapters, introduction, and an epilogue explores European cultural histories at the turn of the nineteenth century in a nonlinear manner, that is, by accumulating critical perspectives on people, objects, and texts that test the boundaries of narratives of transmission, organization, and cohesion that often mark scholarly evaluations of this period in European history.Table of ContentsList of figures and tables Preface and acknowledgements Editors’ Note Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Social capital, material cultures, reading: German and European cultural histories between network and narrative around 1800 I. Social Capital Melanie Conroy, French salons as networks, before and after 1800 Mary Helen Dupree, Plappermann’s Wanderjahre: Traveling declamators and knowledge circulation around 1800 Joachim Homann, Luftschiff der Phantasie: Johann Christian Reinhart, Friedrich Schiller, and artistic networks circa 1800 II. Material Cultures Sean Franzel, Serial Inventories Renata Schellenberg, Cultivating contacts: collectors, critics, and the public in eighteenth-century German-speaking Europe Crystal Hall, An eighteenth-century New England library in its European, material context III. Reading Nacim Ghanbari, First Letters Karin Baumgartner, Mapping the nation: foreign travel in Germany 1738–1839 Peter Höyng, A call for a concert of eavesdroppers: Beethoven’s conversation notebooks IV. Expansive Networks Matt Erlin and Melanie Walsh, Social and conceptual networks in eighteenth-century German periodical literature Birgit Tautz, K/Cosmopolit* in Enlightenment journals: of networks and translation Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Epilog: new networks? Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA pioneering exploration of how differences in material textual forms conveyed and altered ideas in diverse but connected parts of the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.Technological advances during the long eighteenth century brought new and exciting intellectual exchange between peoples in different parts of the world. Mutual unfamiliarity with textual forms - those sent to as well as received from Europe - also made knowledge transfer unpredictable and problematic.This volume examines how differences in the material production and circulation of textual objects transformed the ways in which knowledge was formulated and received between 1650 and 1850. Essays focus on diverse regions of Britain and Europe, European colonies in the Caribbean and North America, India and East Asia. The volume engages with varied and changing perceptions of China in Europe, the transmission of Christian texts in colonial South Asia, the cross-cultural circulation of natural history and Orientalist knowledge, and the diffusion of the Qu'ran in European Enlightenment libraries.In pursuing global perspectives, thirteen cultural and literary historians, collectively reassess Eurocentric interpretations of a republic of letters, a public sphere, an invention of the self and a reading revolution. They further challenge the extent to which European periodizations of 'the Enlightenment' map onto processes of technological and intellectual change in other regions of the globe.

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Book SynopsisTraherne's voice can be heard as never before. THE TABLET Thomas Traherne [1637? - 1674], a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century, when his poetry and Centuries of Meditations were discovered. There have beensince miscellaneous publications of his poetry and devotional writings. The Works of Thomas Traherne brings together all of Traherne's extant works in a definitive, printed edition for the first time. It will include both his published and unpublished works, and his notebooks, presenting them insofar as possible by manuscript, giving due attention to their physical aspects and to their integrity as manuscript books. Volumes II and III make available the Commentaries of Heaven, preserved in one manuscript held at the British Library. Organised topically, it was intended to cover the whole of the alphabet but extends only through `A' and part of `B', with 95prose articles altogether. It possesses the characteristics of a commonplace book, encyclopaedia and dictionary, and contains poetry, meditations, philosophical discourse, and polemic. The unusual range of subjects treated, from `Abhorrence' to `Ant', `Aristotle' to `Atom', shows Traherne to be an imaginative and compelling writer in his approach to Christian theology, while maintaining both his integrity and orthodoxy as a priest.Trade ReviewThe Commentaries is a huge work that is absolutely essential for students and scholars of Traherne. This is the first time it has been published in its entirety, and its publication will undoubtedly spark new explorations into Traherne's work. [...] Ross's project as a whole is an exciting prospect for Traherne scholars, but the publication of the Commentaries alone is a monumental achievement and one that will be of tremendous significance. * SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS *Table of ContentsIntroduction List of Topics Commentaries of Heaven Textual Emendations Appendices Glossary

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Book SynopsisA new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text. New sources for Shakespeare do not turn up every day... This is a truly significant one that has not heretofore been studied or published. The list of passages now traced back to this source is impressive. - David Bevington, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" is the only uniquely existent, unpublished manuscript that can be shown to have been a source for Shakespeare's plays. George North wrote the treatise in 1576 while at Kirtling Hall, the North family estate in Cambridgeshire. His manuscript, newly uncovered by the authors at the British Library, has many implications for our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. for example, not only does it bring clarity to the Fool's mysterious reference to Merlin in King Lear, but also upsets the prevailing opinion that Shakespeare invented the final hours of Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI. Linguistic and thematic correspondences between the North manuscript and Shakespeare's plays make it clear that the playwright borrowed from this document in other plays as well, including Richard III, 3 Henry VI, Henry V, King John, Macbeth, and Coriolanus. The opening chapters of the book investigate such connections; the volume also contains both a transcript and a facsimile of "A Brief Discourse", making this previously unknown document readily available. DENNIS MCCARTHY is an independent scholar; JUNE SCHLUETER is Charles A. Dana Professor Emerita of English at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.Trade ReviewFor years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare's writings. Now, with the help of software typically used by professors to nab cheating students, two writers have discovered an unpublished manuscript they believe the Bard of Avon consulted to write King Lear, Macbeth, Richard III, Henry and seven other plays. The news has caused Shakespeareans to sit up and take notice. 'If it proves to be what they say it is, it is a once-in-a-generation - or several generations - find,' said Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. * NEW YORK TIMES *In 1576, English diplomat George North wrote a treatise on rebellion that for almost 450 years went largely unnoticed. . . . McCarthy and Schlueter provide a thorough overview of the history and provenance of the manuscript, along with compelling explanations about how it influenced Shakespeare's plays. Most helpful is the inclusion of the entire North manuscript in an oversize and easy-to-read format. Highly recommended. x * NEW YORK TIMES *A Brief Discourse is one of the most exciting recent discoveries in the long history of Shakespeare source study. The editors' argument appears to resolve longstanding textual cruxes around Cade's last hours, Merlin's cryptic prophecy in Lear, and a key speech by Canterbury in Henry V, which sheds light on Gloucester's opening monologue in Richard III, Macbeth's catalogue of dogs, and several other discrete passages within the Shakespeare canon. With considerable credit to Boydell and Brewer and The British Library, the book is also beautifully produced and a pleasure to navigate, from its introductory essay, to the modernized transcription, to the full-color facsimile of the manuscript. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsGeorge North and the Kirtling Hall Manuscript Uncovering Connections between North's "Discourse" and Shakespeare's Plays The Final Hours of Jack Cade The Fool, Merlin's Prophecy, and the Upside-Down World of King Lear Political Monologues and a Glimpse of Coriolanus Afterword: The Odds That the Parallels Are Coincidental Transcript: "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" Facsimile: "A brief discourse of rebellion and Rebells, wherin is showyd, ye treasur yt Traytors in ye execution of theyr treason, by tym attayne to" Index

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Book SynopsisA study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in scholarship. This book offers a fresh approach to the subject, in aiming to account for the Middle English literary lenses through which Shakespeare and his contemporaries often approached Greco-Roman mythology. Drawing its principal examples from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Lucrece, and Twelfth Night, it reinvestigates a selection of moments in Shakespeare's works that have been widely identified in previous criticism as "Ovidian", scrutinising their literary alchemy with an eye to uncovering how ostensibly classical references may be haunted by the under-acknowledged, spectral presences of medieval intertexts and traditions. Its central concern is the mutual hauntings of Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Gower in the early modern literary imagination; it demonstrates that "Ovidian" allusions to mythological figures such as Ariadne, Philomela, or Narcissus in Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works were sometimes simultaneously mediated by the hermeneutic and affective legacies of earlier vernacular texts,including The Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Confessio Amantis. LINDSAY ANN REID is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.Trade ReviewShakespeare and Ovid are a familiar coupling; so too, to medievalists, are Ovid and the medieval; and the pairing of Shakespeare and the medieval is making its presence increasingly felt. * TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE *Scholarly efforts to rethink the once sacrosanct period-divide between late medieval and early modern English culture have been under way for quite some time now, and the Studies in Renaissance Literature series has made several important contributions to these exertions. Lindsay Ann Reid's Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval is the latest-exhibiting the perspicacity, nuance, and scope that we have come to expect from the series. The strength of this study is its dense and challenging close readings of ancient, medieval, and early modern texts. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval is a courageous book rectifying the influential oversights by celebrated critics of a canonical writer. With thorough research and probing insights, Reid corrects a distorted understanding of the culture and traditions informing early modern literature, and of Shakespeare himself. * PARERGON *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chaucer's Ghoast, Ovid's 'Pleasant Fables', and the Spectre of Gower Shakespeare's Ovid and Sly's Chaucer Theseus and Ariadne [and her Sister] Philomela and the Dread of Dawn The Cross-Dressed Narcissus Afterword Appendix 1: The Gowerian Riddles of Chaucer's Ghoast Appendix 2: Ariadne's Desertion in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA sensitive investigation into how French writers, including Descartes and Racine, treated a central preoccupation in early modern writings. Idolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French seventeenth century were deeply engaged and concerned with the theme. In a series of case studies and close readings, it shows that authors used the logic of idolatry to interrogate the fractured and fragile relationship between the divine and the human, with particular attention to the increasingly fraught question of the legitimacy of human agency. Reading d'Urfé, Descartes, La Fontaine, Sévigné, Molière, and Racine through the lens of idolatry reveals heretofore hidden aspects of their work, all while demonstrating the link between the emergent autonomy of literature and philosophy and the confessional conflicts that dominated the period. In so doing, Professor McClure illustrates how religion can become a source of interpretive complexity, and how this dynamism can and should be taken into account in early modern French studies and beyond.Trade Review[W]hat makes McClure's case so compelling emerges in her case studies. [...] There follow sensitive yet game-changing readings of Sévigné, Molière, and Racine, with McClure's reading of Phèdre crowning the analysis. One of the subtler qualities of McClure's study is how the readings grow finer as the work advances. * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *Table of ContentsNotes on Translations Introduction: The Logic of Idolatry and the Question of Creation Chapter One: Idolatry and Instability in Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée Chapter Two: Descartes' Meditations as a Solution to Idolatry Chapter Three: Idolatry and the Questioning of Mastery in La Fontaine's Fables Chapter Four: Idolatry and the Love of the Creature in Sévigné's Letters Chapter Five: Theatrical Idolatry in Molière and Racine Conclusion: The End(s) of Idolatry Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century. The early modern "atom" – understood as an indivisible particle of matter – captured the poetic imagination in ways that extended far beyond the reception of Lucretius and Epicurean atomism. Contrarily to fears of atomisation and materialist threat, many poets and philosophers of the period sought positive, spiritual motivation in the concept of material indivisibility. This book traces the metaphysical import of these poetic atoms, teasing out an affinity between poetic and atomic forms in seventeenth-century texts. In the writings of Henry More, Thomas Traherne, Margaret Cavendish, Hester Pulter and Lucy Hutchinson, both atoms and poems were instrumental in acts of creating, ordering and reconstructing knowledge. Their poems emerge as exquisitely self-conscious atomic forms, producing intimate reflections on the creative power and indivisibility of self, soul and God. The book begins with a survey of the imaginative possibilities surrounding the early modern "atom", before considering the indivisible centres of the Cambridge Platonist Henry More's cosmic, Spenserian poetics. The focus then turns to the lyrical bond formed between atom and soul in the writings of Thomas Traherne, and from there, to the experimental sequences of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter, whose poetic spaces create new worlds and imagine alternative lives. The book concludes with a study of Lucy Hutchinson's creation poem Order and Disorder, which anticipates the regeneration of fallen being in atomic and alchemical terms.Trade Review[A]long with sharpening our understanding of the five poets featured in this study, Gorman's book also promises to help nuance our theoretical approaches to materiality and spirituality more broadly. * Religion and the Arts *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Atomic Congruity: The Philosophical Poetry of Henry More 2. Thomas Traherne's Atoms, Souls and Poems 3. World-Making and World-Breaking: The Atom Poems of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter 4. The Atom in Genesis: Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder Afterword: A Poetics of the Atom

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Book SynopsisA new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period. Marguerite de Navarre was a Renaissance princess, diplomat, and mystical poet. She is arguably best known for The Heptameron, an answer to Boccaccio's Decameron, a brilliant and open-ended collection of short stories told by a group of men and women stranded in a monastery. The stories explore love, desire, male and female honour, individual salvation, and the iniquity of Franciscan monks, while the discussions between the storytellers enact and embody the tensions, ideologies, and prejudices underlying the stories. Marguerite herself was deeply involved in the debates and conflicts of her time. Her work reflects the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period, as the Renaissance re-imagined the past and the Reformation re-made the church, and represents her original and sometimes provocative position on these questions. This book presents The Heptameron and its investigations into gender relations, the nature of love, and the nature of religious faith in the context of the intellectual, religious, and political questions of the sixteenth century, setting it alongside Marguerite's other writings: her poetry, plays, and diplomatic letters. In chapters on communities, religion, politics, gender relationships, desire, and literary technique, it explores the complexities and resolutions of Marguerite's writing and her world. It aims to offer a guide to the critical tradition on Marguerite's work along with new readings of her texts, revealing both the historical specificity of her writing and its continuing relevance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Names and Editions Editions of Reference Introduction: A Brief Literary and Historical Chronology Chapter 1 Communities Chapter 2 Religion Chapter 3 Politics Chapter 4 Women and Men Chapter 5 Desire Chapter 6 Form and Technique Conclusion: Print and Public Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShakespeare's playwrighting and possibly his directing reflect a consistent intent to explore principles that, in his days, were perceived as foreign to the dramatic idiom. This is evident within the framework of contemporary theatre theories at the time. Eli Rozik's novel reading of the play-scripts provides the classical and synchronic theoretical background required to capture Shakespeare's innovative approach, and is a major contribution to the history of European theatre practice and theory. All of Rozik's earlier publications on theatre practice and theory engage with Shakespeare's play-scripts by example and these insights are re-integrated herein. The result is a new and challenging concept of Shakespeare's contribution to the art of theatre, and to a viewpoint of the Bard as an unprecedented experimental playwright and innovator in all that concerns the mastery of theatre art and, especially, the expansion of its means of expression. The central concern of this study is not the experimentation by modernist and postmodernist directors in producing Shakespeare's play-scripts for diachronic audiences, but with the exploration, experimentation and innovation embodied in the Bard's practice itself, as reflected in the wide artistic and historical range of the play-scripts. Drama and theatre scholarship, with its concomitant comprehensive method of analysis, is indispensable in revealing the nature of the Bard's playwrighting, his historical explorations and theatrical innovations. Rozik's earlier works on the nature of theatre, fictional creativity and origin, best place him to interpret Shakespeare's works against their synchronic theoretical background in the light that experimentation lay at the heart of Shakespeare's creativity.

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Book SynopsisIs there anything more to say on Hamlet? 'Hide fox, and all after,' a casual quip of the Prince, as he and his enemy the King start to hunt each other down, is taken as the title for this closely-considered survey of the play. J D Winter finds question after question in it raised and unanswered, as if the play's dramatic method were in part to create uncertainty in its audience and so draw them in. He adopts three phrases from the text to provide a context for his approach: the play's the thing, a rhapsody of words, and the invisible event. The first phrase suggests the spectacle itself, without regard to what has been written about it. There is no reference to outside opinion nor is another literary work named. The second indicates an awareness of the text as poem. While the tremendous sweep of Shakespearean blank verse, the prose-paragraphs on fire with their own poetry, the whispering gallery of metaphor, can scarcely be accorded proper respect in a prose commentary, certain rhapsodic effects are everywhere noted. Finally, the play is contained within a mystery. So much seems to happen; so little seems to happen. Almost all the major characters are subject to a pattern of error in their dealings as they are swept on from one catastrophic misjudgement to another. The level to which the play is focussed upon the blind time between events is unusually high. This too draws in the audience; it is a part of the spectators own internal experience. There can be no definitive answer to Hamlet or Hamlet. But like a signpost in a swarming mist, the third phrase may offer a faint clue: the invisible event.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on Spanish poetry honouring a distinguished British Hispanist. Trevor J. Dadson is a British Hispanist of international distinction whose remarkable scholarly range has resulted in a published output that embraces cultural, literary and social history, textual editing, literacy, book ownership and literary criticism. The twelve essays of the present volume pay tribute to his distinctive interventions in the field of Spanish poetry (early modern and contemporary); collectively they recognize the catalytic role of Professor Dadson's original research while opening up to dialogues beyond it, aiming to inspire new conversations around the topics he has inspired generations of scholars to pursue. Represented in the volume are former doctoralstudents, former colleagues and international collaborators, all of whom are also distinguished authorities in their fields. Javier Letrán is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of St Andrews. Isabel Torres is Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature at Queen's University Belfast.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction Voicing Time: The Temporal Textures of Garcilaso de la Vega. Luis de León and the Moriscos: a close reading of Ode XXII (La cana y alta cumbre Conde de Salinas: Poesías atribuidas o disputadas Horacio en Quevedo: principios retóricos del arte de la imitación El nuevo Olimpo de Gabriel Bocángel y Aragón Imaging Women: The Portrait Poems of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán La sublimidad del septentrión: paisajes de la poesía romántica española Antonio Machado as cynic: "Fantasía de una noche de abril" as Pastiche of Espronceda Hamlet without the Prince: Denunciation and Surveillance in Vicent Andrés Estellés's Testimoni d'Horaci Poetry and Crisis in Spain after 2008 Contexto, texto e intertexto en Cuaderno de vacaciones (2014), de Luis Alberto de Cuenca La lírica en los tiempos del neoliberalismo: reflexiones sobre Balada en la muerte de la poesía de Luis García Montero Appendix A : The Publications of Trevor J. Dadson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEste libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII. A close reading of the cultural exchanges between England and Spain in the18th century as seen in the periodical press. Este libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII, centrándose en particular en el género más novedoso del setecientos, la pódica. Para ello, explora el fenómeno hasta ahora difuso de la anglomanía - moda de las ideas, influencias y estilos ingleses que dominó la Europa del setecientos - y su fenómeno opuesto, la anglofobia, en tres tipos de prensa bien diferenciados, todo ello en conjunción con la propia coyuntura nacional y el programa de reformas borbónico. Además, esta obra enfatiza la labor de estos periodistas y periódicos, así como sus conexiones con el poder, a la vez que los sitúa como agentes fundamentales de esa red europea de intercambios materiales e intelectuales que sustentó la República de las Letras. Con todo ello, este volumen contribuye a la serie de debates dedicados a la reevaluación de la Ilustración española que buscan situarla en el mapa de las Luces Europeas de entonces y de ahora. LETICIA VILLAMEDIANA GONZÁLEZ es Profesora Titular en el Departamento de Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick. This book constitutes the first monographic study of the cultural transfers from Great Britain to Spain through 18th-Century periodical press, one of the most innovative genres of the period. It exploresthe notion of anglomania - the craze for all things English which spread throughout all Europe - and its reactive phenomenon, anglophobia, offering a contextualised analysis of the transmission, reception and adaptation of BritishEnlightened ideas and reforms in three different types of Spanish periodicals. In so doing, this volume brings to the fore the work of some understudied writers and journalists and situates these important periodicals and their connections to power as a key part of a wider European context of material and intellectual exchanges that sustained the Republic of Letters. This in turn, contributes to recent scholarship arguing for a central place of Spain in the intellectual map of the Enlightenment. LETICIA VILLAMEDIANA GONZÁLEZ is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick.Table of ContentsIntroducción Anglofilia, anglomanía y anglofobia en la Europa del siglo XVIII La prensa española en el siglo XVIII El espejo inglés: emulación y prensa económica Traducciones, adaptaciones y (re)creaciones en los espectadores españoles Entre filias y fobias: la doble imagen de Inglaterra en la prensa de entresiglos Epílogo Apéndices Bibliografía Índice

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Book SynopsisWho doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested'? A pioneer of early modern feminism, María de Zayas y Sotomayor wrote poetry, drama and prose but is best known for two page-turning collections of short stories: Exemplary Tales of Love (1637) and Tales of Disillusion (1647). This book provides an engaging introduction to Zayas and her work. It begins by relating what we know of her life, placing her in her socio-political and economic context and addressing the issue of women's literacy. Following chapters examine her use of sexual desire, violence and humour in her tales; her narrative structures; and her oral style. The book then turns to identity construction in her tales and in society, analysing questions of gender, class, family and 'race', and to her treatment of religion, magic and the supernatural. The final chapters explore Zayas's status as a proto-feminist; her early modern reception in Spain and elsewhere; and various critical readings of her work.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter I: Zayas: Her Life and Times Chapter 2: Exemplary Tales of Love: A Contradiction? Chapter 3: Settings, Styles and Models: Zayas's Literary Context Chapter 4: Turning the Tables on Men in Exemplary Tales of Love Chapter 5: Bodies in Pain: Tales of Disillusion Chapter 6: Identifying the Subject Chapter 7: I Believe: Religion, Magic, the Supernatural Chapter 8: Zayas on Women Conclusion: Zayas's Afterlives Appendix: Plot Summaries

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Book SynopsisWritten by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired. The term picaresque describes a specific set of early modern Spanish narratives relating the life story of a lowborn adventurer in a realist, ironic, and often humorous manner. The protagonist, the picaro or pícara (rascal), seeks upward mobility in a resolutely hierarchical society determined to prevent his - or her - ascent, and both are rich targets of satire. Spanish pícaros inspired Anglo-French rogues including Gil Blas and Tom Jones and paved the way for the modern novel. Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque novel from its origins to the present day, along with a treatment of the debates that the picaresque has inspired. After introductory chapters on the picaresque genre and the origin of the phenomenon, the book analyses canonical texts and their role in the picaresque spectrum. Further chapters then turn to critical approaches to the genre and manifestations of the picaresque in Hispanic America, France, England, and modern Spain. Overall, the book affords readers a broad sense of the range of this rich tradition and an in-depth view of the field and its major texts.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Forward 1. The Picaresque as a Genre Edward H. Friedman 2. On the Picaresque and Its Origins Anne J. Cruz 3. Francisco Delicado, La lozana andaluza Marta Albalá Pelegrín 4. Lazarillo de Tormes J. A. Garrido Ardila 5. Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache Howard Mancing 6. Francisco de Quevedo, La vida del buscón Edward H. Friedman 7. La pícara Justina Brian M. Phillips 8. Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, La hija de Celestina Enrique García Santo-Tomás 9. Miguel de Cervantes and the Picaresque Vicente Pérez de León 10. Vicente Espinel, Marcós de Obregón John C. Parrack 11. Carlos García, La desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos Antón García-Fernández 12. Estebanillo González Faith S. Harden 13. Critical Approaches to the Picaresque Hilaire Kallendorf 14. The Picaresque in Spanish America José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León 15. Continuations: France and England Richard Squibbs 16. Continuity of the Picaresque: Spain Andrés Zamora Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have written El Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso's plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship, considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso's life and work, Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests, to his legacy.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Reassessing Tirso for a Twenty-First-Century Audience - Esther Fernández PART I. A WORLDLY FRIAR 1. Aligning Contradictions: Tirso de Molina's Life and Works - Esther Fernández 2. A Text with No Name? The Rise and Fall of Tirso's Attribution of El burlador de Sevilla -Alejandro García-Reidy 3. Prose Fiction and Authorial Self-Fashioning: Los cigarrales de Toledo and Deleitar aprovechando - Christopher B. Weimer 4. The Religious Theater of Fray Gabriel Téllez - Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar PART II. ANTINORMATIVE IDENTITIES 5. Melancholy Subjects: Pathological Love in the Plays of Tirso de Molina - Emmy Herland 6. "Mozo soy y mozo fuiste": Early Modern Conceptions of Age and Masculinity in El burlador de Sevilla - José R. Cartagena-Calderón 7. All about the Mother in Lessons to the Wise - Judith Caballero 8. To Be and Not to Be: Iterations of Disguise in the Theater of Tirso de Molina - Robert L. Turner III 9. Dressing the Part: Costuming and Material Culture in Tirso de Molina Emily C. Tobey PART III. SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES 10. Tirso de Molina: A Musical Meeting of the Minds - Ivy Howell Walters 11. The Figurative Geography of Natural Landscapes in Tirso de Molina - Harrison Meadows 12. Tirso de Molina, Encounters with the New World - Gladys Robalino 13. Tirso Goes Underground - Antonio Guijarro-Donadiós 14. The Impossible Lockdown: Tirso de Molina's Lessons in Domesticity - Noelia S. Cirnigliaro PART IV. UNCONVENTIONAL AFTERLIVES 15. Staging Tirso de Molina in Spain and England (1986- ): Ingenuity or Aberration? - Susan L. Fischer 16. Tirso de Molina in English: Translation for Performance - Kathleen Jeffs 17. Tirso de Molina on Stage: Comedy, Costumes, Chameleons - Harley Erdman 18 . Performing Gender on the English-Language Stage: Tirso's Queer Characters - Sarah Grunnah 19. Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the 21st Century Classroom - Erin A. Cowling and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas 20. Tirso de Molina's Critical Panorama (2010-2021) - Ignacio Arellano Ayuso

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Book SynopsisEducated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'.

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Book SynopsisAmazing & Extraordinary Facts: Shakespeare is a fascinating collection of surprising revelations, quirky characters and other fascinating pieces of trivia from the world of the great English bard. From the stories behind his well-known plays and poems, through the actors and theatres that have entertained his works, to his legacy in popular culture and beyond, an intriguing and unusual history of his life and times is revealed. Drawing back the curtains on this iconic English character, there is something here for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing book is published to coincide with the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death on 23rd April 2016.Table of Contents1 Introduction 8 2 'Lost years' 12 3 'Upstart crow' 14 4 Becoming the bard 15 5 One last blow 18 6 'Our revels now are ended' 20 7 An unerring eye 22 8 'Farewell to Folly' 24 9 Star of poets 25 10 All the Globe's a stage 26 11 A full house 30 12 American visionary 31 13 Different spectacles 34 14 Makeup concoctions 35 15 Set in stone 37 16 Hand wringing 39 17 Portrait of the bard 40 18 Sought-after item 43 19 Stellar legacy 46 20 Written when? 48 21 Origins of Falstaff 50 22 Bard of bird fanciers 52 23 'Pound of flesh' 54 24 Charge of sexism 57 25 'Lost' plays 59 26 Picture of hysteria 62 27 Shrine to the bard 64 28 Stage dynasty 68 29 First-hand account 70 30 Hell-raiser 72 31 Public scandal 73 32 Disastrous spectacles 76 33 Masonic cabal 78 34 Opposing factions 80 35 The Baconians 81 36 Rivers of blood 84 37 In and out of favour 86 38 Sustained observation 88 39 Advance warning 89 40 The Oxfordians 91 41 Poetic styles 94 42 The Marlovians 95 43 'Noted weed' 99 44 Beloved by Russia 102 45 'Vulgar and barbarous' 105 46 Toe-curling homage 106 47 The silver screen 109 48 At each other's throats 112 49 Subtle shifts 113 50 Five beats to a bar 115 51 Heralding a Golden Age 119 52 'Loathsome as a toad' 122 53 Something borrowed 125 54 Shakespeare Trek 126 55 Inspiring songwriters 127 56 Inspiring wordsmiths 130 57 Playwright for all ages 132 58 Index 136

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Book SynopsisShakespeare, who wrote at the beginning of the long period in which the Catholic faith as violently suppressed in the British Isles, has long enjoyed an iconic status. Some readers have interpreted him as an early agnostic, expressing modern angst about whether anything exists besides ""this mortal coil"" that seems to be merely ""full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."" In recent years, however, thanks largely to the work of Peter Milward, close study of Shakespeare's plays has raised the question: Was Shakespeare in fact a believing Catholic? To this question, which radically changes the way that Shakespeare's plays should be read, Milward here offers, in his definitive study of the topic, a resounding ""Yes.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in fiction. It also offers a comparative study of texts from cultures as diverse as English, French, Korean and Chinese, and of emotions in relation to genre, identity, and morality during significant cultural transformation of the early modern period. This book is distinctive in its choice of non-fictional genres, its period, and its cross-cultural approach. It can benefit scholars interested in exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in enriching their knowledge of an emerging scholarly direction: studies in self-narratives (autobiography, memoirs, dream narratives, letters, etc.) often insufficiently explored in earlier historical periods.Table of ContentsPart 1 : Encounters and Crossings.- 1. Frédéric Charbonneau (McGill) : Nou Nou: a Chinese inheritance quarrel at the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 1713-1743.- 2. Shirley F. Tung: East Meets West in Elysium: Liminal Landscapes and Loss in Montagu’s Letters from Turkey and Italy.- 3. Daniel Williford, UCLA: “Buddhism and Emotions: Asian Enlightenment and the Anxieties of European Identity” Daniel Williford.- 4. Angelina Del Balzo, UCLA: Shakespeare’s Art of the Dervish: Elizabeth Montagu, Voltaire, and National Sentiment.- Part 2: Emotions: high and low, private and public, male and female.- 5. Yinghui Wu, UCLA: How to Manipulate Emotions in The Classic of Whoring.- 6. Tina Lu, Yale University: Competing versions of 17th-century Interiority.- Part 3: From noble to popular sentiments.- 7. Marie-Paule De Weerdt-Pilorge, Universitéde Tours, Emotions in the face of silence in the Memoir of 1805, by Lady Hyegyŏng. The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea.- 8. Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil, UCLA, "Hemlock and Hair Shirts: Valentin Jamerey-Duval's Affective Habitus.- 9. Jean-Jacques Tatier-Gourin, Université de Tours : Staging Revolutionary Choices and Expressing Personal Sentiments in the Memoirs by Louvet (1795).

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in fiction. It also offers a comparative study of texts from cultures as diverse as English, French, Korean and Chinese, and of emotions in relation to genre, identity, and morality during significant cultural transformation of the early modern period. This book is distinctive in its choice of non-fictional genres, its period, and its cross-cultural approach. It can benefit scholars interested in exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in enriching their knowledge of an emerging scholarly direction: studies in self-narratives (autobiography, memoirs, dream narratives, letters, etc.) often insufficiently explored in earlier historical periods.Table of ContentsPart 1 : Encounters and Crossings.- 1. Frédéric Charbonneau (McGill) : Nou Nou: a Chinese inheritance quarrel at the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 1713-1743.- 2. Shirley F. Tung: East Meets West in Elysium: Liminal Landscapes and Loss in Montagu’s Letters from Turkey and Italy.- 3. Daniel Williford, UCLA: “Buddhism and Emotions: Asian Enlightenment and the Anxieties of European Identity” Daniel Williford.- 4. Angelina Del Balzo, UCLA: Shakespeare’s Art of the Dervish: Elizabeth Montagu, Voltaire, and National Sentiment.- Part 2: Emotions: high and low, private and public, male and female.- 5. Yinghui Wu, UCLA: How to Manipulate Emotions in The Classic of Whoring.- 6. Tina Lu, Yale University: Competing versions of 17th-century Interiority.- Part 3: From noble to popular sentiments.- 7. Marie-Paule De Weerdt-Pilorge, Universitéde Tours, Emotions in the face of silence in the Memoir of 1805, by Lady Hyegyŏng. The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea.- 8. Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil, UCLA, "Hemlock and Hair Shirts: Valentin Jamerey-Duval's Affective Habitus.- 9. Jean-Jacques Tatier-Gourin, Université de Tours : Staging Revolutionary Choices and Expressing Personal Sentiments in the Memoirs by Louvet (1795).

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world – with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. By addressing this philosophical debt, this study sets out a threefold re-evaluation of Blake’s work: to clarify the classical stream of Blake’s philosophical heritage through Lucretius; to return Blake to his historical moment, a thirty-year period from 1790 to 1820 which has been described as the second Lucretian moment in England; and to employ a new exegetical model for understanding the phenomenological parameters and epistemological frameworks of Blake’s mythopoeia. Accordingly, it is revealed that Blake was not only aware of classical atomistic cosmogony and sense-based epistemology but that he systematically mapped postlapsarian existence onto an Epicurean framework.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Francis Bacon 3 The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Isaac Newton 4 Simulacra and the Selfhood 5 Urizenic Phantasiae 6 The Cosmic Chains of the Machina Mundi

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Book SynopsisThis open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual instability despite the travelers’ apparent desires to domesticate the islands. Taking a synoptic approach to travel narratives in French from 1620 up to the publication of Labat’s Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l’Amérique in 1722, Kullberg examines textual instances where the islands and the peoples of this period disrupt and unsettle dominant French narratives and enter productively into the construction of knowledge and the representations of the region. Kullberg’s contribution is to read French early modern travels in situ as shaped by the archipelagic geography, its history and social formations in order to interrogate both the construction and the limitations of discourses of power. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Archipelagos.Chapter 3: Constructing the Self between Worlds.Chapter 4: Other tongues.Chapter 5: Conclusion...or Alternative Beginnings.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays reassesses William Hayley's contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context.

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Book SynopsisEine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren. In der neuen historisch-kritischen Edition werden die Texte – im Unterschied zur Weimarer Ausgabe von Goethes Werken – ohne Eingriffe durch die Herausgeber nach den Handschriften wiedergegeben. Ein Apparat verzeichnet sämtliche zeitgenössischen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen sowie die Wechsel der Schreiber. Ein umfangreiches Register der direkt und indirekt im Tagebuch genannten Personen, Werke und Orte sowie ein Register zu Goethes Werken erschließen den Text. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar im zweiten Teilband erläutert und kontextualisiert die Notate und macht sie dadurch mit Gewinn lesbar.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Text.- Register

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Book SynopsisNur wenige deutsche Dichter erfahren eine ähnlich starke Aufmerksamkeit bis in die jüngste Gegenwart wie Friedrich Hölderlin. Das Handbuch, seit vielen Jahren das Standardwerk zur Hölderlin-Forschung, informiert in der Neuauflage detailliert über den aktuellen Forschungs- und Wissensstand. Es analysiert das gesamte Werk des Dichters und behandelt darüber hinaus die Biographie im Kontext der Epoche, die Voraussetzungen für das Werk, die Poetologie und schließlich die Rezeption Hölderlins. So werden verschiedene Zugangsweisen und die Vielfalt der Denkmotive Hölderlins transparent. In der zweiten Auflage wurden zahlreiche Artikel neu verfasst und ergänzt.Trade Review“... Studierende, die zum ersten Mal Hölderlins Werk begegnen und sich auf das mehr oder weniger unüberschaubare Gebiet der Hölderlin-Forschung wagen, wie auch Forscher:innen auf diesem inzwischen hyperspezialisierten Gebiet, die neue Bereiche erkunden möchten, finden im neuen Hölderlin-Handbuch einen Ausgangspunkt dafür.” (Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, in: Hölderlin-Jahrbuch, Jg. 42, 2020-2021)Table of ContentsI Druckgeschichte.- II Zeit und Person.- III Voraussetzungen, Quellen, Kontext.- IV Poetologie.- V Werk.- VI Rezeption.- VII Nachwirkungen.​

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Book SynopsisDie Geschichte des modernen deutschen Dramas beginnt mit Lessing. Gleichwohl gilt er als Autor, der an einer Schwelle steht: Er bereitet den Klassikern den Weg, bleibt aber hinter ihnen zurück. Lessing ist der „Vorklassiker“ der deutschen Literatur, gerühmt und vereinnahmt als Kämpfer für die Nation und das Bürgertum, die Wahrheit und die Toleranz. Robert Vellusig kontrastiert die an Missverständnissen reiche Wirkungsgeschichte Lessings mit seinem facettenreichen Werk und porträtiert ihn als dichtenden Pfarrerssohn und Genie der Kritik, publizistisch versierten Intellektuellen und führenden Vertreter einer Aufklärung, die ihren Namen verdient.Trade Review“... Sehr anregend geschrieben und nicht nur für Germanisten interessant sondern für alle, die sich fragen, worin die bis heute bestehende Bedeutung von Lessings Dramen und Werk besteht. Dieses Buch gibt in aller Kürze (ohne zu verkürzen!) Antworten darauf.” (Frank Seeger, in: ekz-Informationsdienst, Heft 30, 2023)Table of ContentsDas ​Werk.- Die Folgen.

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Book SynopsisDas Kleist-Jahrbuch 2022 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2020 im November 2021 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Clemens J. Setz, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Daniela Strigl und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Den Schwerpunkt bilden die von Andrea Allerkamp und Martin Roussel betreuten Beiträge der internationalen Jahrestagung der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft 2021 ›Um einen Kleist von außen bittend‹ (u.a. von László F. Földényi, Rüdiger Görner, Andrea Pagni, Paul Michael Lützeler und Carlotta von Maltzan). Abhandlungen zu Kleists Werken und Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Neuerscheinungen zu Kleist sowie zu seinen historischen und systematischen Kontexten beschließen den Band.Table of ContentsVerleihung des Kleist-Preises 2020.- Internationale Jahrestagung der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft 2021 ›Um einen Kleist von außen bittend‹. Bestandsaufnahme – Über-Setzungen – Konstellationen – Fallgeschichten.- Abhandlungen.- Rezensionen.- Anhang.

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Book Synopsis19.800 Briefe an Goethe von etwa 3.350 Absendern. Das Gesamtcorpus der an Goethe gerichteten Briefe, von denen bislang nur etwa 8.000 verstreut gedruckt vorliegen, wird hier erstmals in Regestform veröffentlicht. Das mehrgliedrige Briefregest enthält Angaben über Absender und Datum des jeweiligen Briefes, Hinweise auf Goethes Antwortbrief, auf die Registrierung eingegangener Briefe sowie Nachweise über eventuelle Druckorte, die Form der Überlieferung und die Archivsignatur.

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Book SynopsisDer Band 19 II der Schiller Nationalausgabe bietet erstmals einen umfassenden historisch-kritischen Anmerkungsapparat zu den in den Bänden 17 und 18 abgedruckten historischen Schriften Schillers. Dazu gehören ausführliche Dokumentationen und Darstellungen zu den Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichten der einzelnen Werke, deren Überlieferung sowie die Lesarten unterschiedlicher Ausgaben zu Schillers Lebzeiten. Die Quellenarbeit Schillers wird systematisch rekonstruiert und dokumentiert. Ausführliche Stellenkommentare bieten nicht nur historische Personen-, Sach- und Worterläuterungen, sondern geben auch Einblick in den Diskurs- und Werkzusammenhang der Schillerʼschen Schriften. Mit Registern zu allen historiografischen Werken (Bände 17-19/I) und einer Chronik der ‚historischen Phase‘ Schillers.Table of ContentsAnmerkungen.- Handschriften.- Chronik.- Register

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Book SynopsisDieser Band enthält die Erläuterungen zu den beiden Bänden Lebenszeugnisse, Teil I (Schillers Kalender, Schillers Bibliothek) und Teil IIA (Dokumente zu Schillers Leben), die Schillers Leben beginnend mit dem Marbacher Taufeintrag von 1759 und endend mit dem Eintrag im Weimarer Sterberegister 1805 anhand der überlieferten Dokumente seines beruflichen und privaten Werdegangs darstellen. Die umfassenden Erläuterungen werden durch ein Personenregister erschlossen.Table of ContentsVorbemerkungen zur Edition.- Abkürzungen und Siglen.- Erläuterungen.- Personenregister

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Book SynopsisWichtige Erschließungshilfe der Kommentarbände und Ergänzung des Registerbandes 10: In alphabetischer Ordnung werden zentrale Begriffe und Erläuterungen, alle in den Briefen berührten Sachverhalte und eigentümliche Wörter und Wendungen nachgewiesen. Außerdem werden zahlreiche Personen- und Ortsnamen aus den Briefen an Johann Gottfried und Karoline Herder, die im Kommentar enthalten sind, aufgeführt. Das Register enthält nicht nur Stichworte, die Probleme und Sachen bezeichnen, sondern unter sprachhistorischem Aspekt auch Wörter mit Bedeutungswandel, Fremdwörter und Dialektwörter.Table of ContentsVorbemerkung.- Errata.- Nachtrag zu Bd. VII.- Probleme, Sachen, Personen, Orte

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of articles written for Professor Marta Gibinska by her colleagues and friends, from universities both in Poland and abroad. The texts presented in this volume cover a wide spectrum of topics. Part I, devoted to Shakespeare, comprises wide-ranging work from renowned specialists in the field: studies on historical background, sources, theatrical, screen and literary reception, as well as translation. Part II contains articles which deal with multiple authors, genres and perspectives, but are uniformly passionate and insightful.The title Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to Praise, a poetic phrase borrowed from Shakespeare, conveys what seems to be a defining quality of both the contributors to this volume and its recipient: namely, the ability to translate keen appreciation of literature not into speechless awe but eloquent praise, combined with the generosity to share it with others.

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Book SynopsisThe essays included in this volume attempt to answer, directly or indirectly, the following questions connected with Shakespeare’s popularity worldwide. Can we appropriate Enobarbus’s fascination with Cleopatra, borrowed for the motto of this volume: “age cannot wither Shakespeare, or custom stale”? What makes it so that his works do not “cloy” their recipients’ appetite, but instead constantly whet it for more? Can we still talk about Shakespeare’s “infinite variety” and how are we to understand this epithet in the twenty-first century? Does this opinion hold in the context of the international reception of his works? Why does he still enjoy such an exciting career—with his works still in active circulation—even though he died in 1616? How is it possible for works written with a quill over four hundred years ago by a man in ruffs and tights to resonate with the hearts and minds of contemporary recipients all over the world?Trade ReviewIt might appear that everything has been already said about Shakespeare, and yet new theatrical productions show how well Shakespeare’s plays function in new contexts and surprising interpretations. The great asset of Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety is its wide historical and geographical range – that is, from the time of the Bard himself to the latest metamorphoses of meanings that new electronic media has made available. Every reader, depending on his/her age and prior experience with Shakespeare, is at a different moment of this great historical-theoretical continuum of world culture. Everyone can also begin one’s own intellectual journey through cultural history – any time, any place. Despite the once popular but now outdated claim, history has not ended. This volume testifies to the benefits of combining historical perspective in its fairly elementary version, which is a linear sequence of events, with an in-depth analysis of the transformations in understanding, exhibiting, and using (appropriating) Shakespeare’s works in our rapidly changing reality. -- Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk, professor emerita, Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw

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