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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human …
Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was recognized as Britain's most distinguished historian of ideas. Many of his essays discussed thinkers of what this book calls the 'long Enlightenment' …
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic …
Edinburgh German Yearbook 12
In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the German Enlightenment. German literature and …
Fontane and Cultural Mediation
In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed: ‘nowhere is so much translation done as in Germany.’ Characterizing Germany as a special locus of …
German Literature, Jewish Critics
Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies. Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals …
Who Is This Schiller Now?
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller …
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann
Key dimensions of Thomas Mann’s writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of …
Women and Death 2
Explores both constants and changes in representations of warlike and violent women in German culture over the past six centuries. Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in …