The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory

Justin Clemens

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 17
• Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justi... Lees meer

Authority, State and National Character

Helmut Kuzmics, Roland Axtmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 36
• This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with h... Lees meer

Chaucer's Dream Visions

Michael St John

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 7
• Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four... Lees meer

Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793

Gregory S Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 33
• The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book describes the form, the meaning, the achievements, and ... Lees meer

Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914

Katherine Haldane Grenier

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become... Lees meer

Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England

Liz Oakley-Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with tr... Lees meer

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

Tony Kushner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many differ... Lees meer

Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare

Daryl W Palmer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the ... Lees meer

Imperiled Heritage: Tradition, History and Utopia in Early Modern German Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 5
• The most prolific historian of early modern German literature in the twentieth century, Klaus Garber has largely remained unknown to English-language ... Lees meer

Devolving Identities

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in contine... Lees meer

We Europeans?

Tony Kushner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• We Europeans is the first book-length study of the original mass observation project. It is also the first detailed historical study of the formation ... Lees meer

The Poetics of Transubstantiation

Douglas Burnham

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from th... Lees meer

Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth

Christopher Braider

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition... Lees meer

Perspectives on Travel Writing

Glenn Hooper

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 19
• Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Tra... Lees meer

Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare

Daryl W Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 22
• This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the ... Lees meer

Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793

Gregory S Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 33
• The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book describes the form, the meaning, the achievements, and ... Lees meer

Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 14
• This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contrib... Lees meer

Proust's Cup of Tea

Emily Eells

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 15
• Proust's Cup of Tea analyzes Proust's reading of various Victorian authors and shows how they contributed to A la recherche du temps perdu. This book ... Lees meer

Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770 1914

Katherine Haldane Grenier

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become... Lees meer

Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth

Christopher Braider

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 23
• In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition... Lees meer

The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy

Verna A Foster

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• Focusing on European tragicomedy from the early modern period to the theatre of the absurd, Verna Foster here argues for the independence of tragicome... Lees meer

Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Michael J Sosulski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 37
• In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheat... Lees meer

Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England

Liz Oakley-Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 34
• In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with tr... Lees meer

Translating Travel

Loredana Polezzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 12
• Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines ... Lees meer