Product Description: Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S...read more

Product Description: Armed Ambiguity interrogates tropes of the woman warrior constructed by print culture—including press reports, novels, dramatic works, and lyrical texts—during the decades-long conflict in Europe around 1800.Julie Koser sheds new light on how women’s bodies became a semiotic battleground for competing social, cultural, and political agendas in one of the most critical periods of modern history...read more

Product Description: The more than 30 essays in this volume examine the engagement of the Enlightenment with esoteric traditions of the Early Modern Era and the transformative pathways by which Hermeticism, magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah influenced Spiritualism, Occultism, and Theosophy...read more

Product Description: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power...read more

Product Description: Ein Jahrhundert nach ihrem ersten Erscheinen wird Diltheys seinerzeit viel beachtete Publikation Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung in den Band XXVI, den letzten der Gesammelten Schriften, aufgenommen. Das Ensemble der vier Aufsatze zeigt sich im Kontext des Dilthey'schen Gesamtwerks unter erweiterter Perspektive: Die Edition dokumentiert Veranderungen der Aufsatze von den Erstfassungen an, kommentiert sie mit Rucksicht auf Verknupfungen untereinander und mit anderen Werken Diltheys und teilt unbekannte Stucke aus dem Nachlass mit...read more

Product Description: In the Romantic Movement, the fragment acquired the status of an autonomous artistic genre which no longer points back to a mutilated whole but indicates future completion. The age was marked by an awareness of radical change in religion, philosophy and learning which demanded a fragmentary style which gives Early Romantic literature its specific form of expression...read more

Product Description: This Festschrift in honor of Dennis F. Mahoney’s sixty-fifth birthday is somewhat different from the standard Festschrift: rather than present essays from various authors, this Festschrift collects twenty-one of Mahoney’s most important English-language publications on German Classicism and Romanticism published over the past thirty years...read more

In "The Making of a Terrorist, "Jeffrey Champlin examines key figures from three canonical texts from the German-language literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Goethe s "Gotz von Berlichingen, "Schiller s "Die Rauber, "and Kleist s "Michael Kohlhaas." Champlin situates these readings within a larger theoretical and historical context, exploring the mechanics, aesthetics, and poetics of terror while explicating the emergence of the terrorist personality in modernity. In engaging and accessible prose, Champlin explores the ethical dimensions of violence and interrogates an ethics of textual violence."

Product Description: In the last three decades of the eighteenth century, a small but significant number of German actresses, including Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840), Marianne Ehrmann (1755-1795) and Elise Bürger (1769-1833), began to publish poetry, autobiography, drama and short fiction under their own names...read more

Product Description: Die Arbeit liefert erstmals eine umfassende Darstellung der deutschen Shakespeare-Rezeption von ihren Anfängen bis zum Sturm und Drang. Dabei finden auch solche Autoren Erwähnung, deren Leistung von der Forschung bisher weitgehend vernachlässigt wurde...read more

Using novels and autobiographies from Bach's Germany, Stephen Rose suggests new ways of interpreting the lives and social status of musicians. The study focuses on satirical novels written by musicians that describe the lives of performers and composers, as well as the autobiographies of Bach's contemporaries. These narratives represent musicians variously as picaresque outcasts, honourable craft-workers, foolish bunglers and respected virtuosos. They probe the lives of musicians considered taboo or aberrant in the period, such as street entertainers and Italian castratos. The novels and autobiographies also reveal two major debates that shaped the mindset and social identity of musicians: was music a sensual or rational craft, and should musicians integrate within society or be regarded as outsiders? Quoting from an array of little-known novels, this book shows how an interdisciplinary approach can transform our understanding of Bach and his contemporaries.

Product Description: Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche...read more

Product Description: Hans Eichner belongs to that group of Jewish intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany or Austria in the 1930s and who subsequently exerted a formative influence on German Studies in the English-speaking world. Eichner made a new home in Canada, where he taught first at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and then for many years at the University of Toronto...read more

Product Description: Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries revolve around these questions...read more

Product Description: While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature...read more

Product Description: The essays contained in this volume address topics that often overlooked in existing scholarship. The book considers a wider circle of writers of Weimar Classicism and takes into account writers affected and impacted in their lives by the classical project...read more