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Romantic Verse Narrative
Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth …
The Rise of the English Street Ballad 1550–1650
Originally published in German in 1981, and first published in English as this Cambridge edition in 1990, Natascha Würzbach's study of the street ballad was the first to …
Walter Pater
Wolfgang Iser's study of Walter Pater (1839-94) was first published in German in 1960. It places the English critic, essayist and novelist in a philosophical tradition whose major …
The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem
Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century. Derived from French models, the mock-heroic became something more …
Parentage and Inheritance in the Novels of Charles Dickens
Dickens' plots have often been dismissed as conventional or cheaply sensational: Anny Sadrin argues that they should rather be seen as the embodiment of one of Dickens's central …
Shakespeare's Festive World
This book offers an exciting new perspective on Shakespeare’s relation to popular culture. Shakespeare’s plays draw extensively on the events and traditions of Elizabethan …
The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse
The image of the 'fallen woman' was a common one in Elizabethan literature. This 1990 study, translated from the original German by the author, deals with an unconventional aspect …
The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem
Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century. Derived from French models, the mock-heroic became something more …
The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature
This major and acclaimed study of the symbolist tradition in England focuses on the years 1850 to 1900 and discusses the poetry of such as William Morris, O'Shaughnessy, the …
The Middle English Mystery Play
The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. Hans-Jurgen Diller's major study, first …
Oscar Wilde
Originally published in English in 1989, from a 1980 German edition, this book provides a comprehensive study of Oscar Wilde's work. It aims to gain fresh insight into his literary …
The Theory and Analysis of Drama
Manfred Pfister’s book is the first to provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The materical on …