Litteraturvetenskap: ca 1500 - ca 1800

In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts avanciert die Erinnerung zu einem zentralen Gegenstand der deutschsprachigen Lyrik. Das bislang in der Forschung weitgehend …

Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. …

This book reflects on what medieval Latin authors don't say about the sex nobody had-or maybe some had-and about how they don't say it. Their silences are artfully constructed, …

Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely …

The late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire. Performances took place in Moscow and Sao Paulo, …

The pride o' a' our Scottish plain;Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain,(Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns')The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading …

This new translation brings to English-speaking readers an intense and brooding work by the greatest poet of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto. Begun as a sequel to his …

Milton Across Borders and Media is an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton's international reception across diverse media from the seventeenth …

Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as …

First published in 1971, Prelude to the Enlightenment is a study of the attitudes of French writers during the transition from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment. Professors …