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This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual models of overview: the panorama and the compilation. Both models claimed to offer a holistic picture of the present moment, but took very different approaches. This book shows that panoramas (360° views previously associated with the Romantic period) and compilations (big data projects previously associated with the Victorian fin de siècle) are intertwined, relevant across the entire century, and often remediated, making them crucial lenses through which to view a broad range of genre and forms. It brings together interdisciplinary research materials belonging to different period silos to create new understandings of how nineteenth-century audiences dealt with information overload. It argues for a new politics of distance: one that recognizes the value of immersing oneself in a situation, event or phenomenon, but which also does not chastise us for trying to see the big picture. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature, history, visual culture and information studies.

Was bedeutet es, wahnsinnig zu sein? Und wer darf darüber entscheiden?Im Amerika des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts beansprucht Psychiatrie als neue Fachdisziplin diese Autorität für sich. Jedoch ist die Erfolgsgeschichte der Psychiatrie und ihr medizinisches Konzept von Wahnsinn untrennbar mit der literarischen Domäne verbunden, wie die Ergebnisse dieser Studie zeigen.Auf der Suche nach Wissen verlassen sich Psychiater auf Shakespeare, Moliére und Byron als unfehlbare Autoritäten und nutzen deren Charakterstudien als Grundlage für Ätiologie und Pathogenese. Gleichzeitig verteufeln Irrenärzte schöngeistige Literatur als demoralisierend und pathogen. Die sogenannte Irrenhausliteratur - einschlägige Sensationsromane, Patientenzeitschriften, Exposees und die Irrenhausbibliothek als Instrument der Bibliotherapie - erweitert das Spektrum der Untersuchung.Die Gegenüberstellung und der Vergleich von Fachliteratur, Irrenhausliteratur und den Werken klassischer amerikanischer Autoren wie Hawthorne und Melville zeigt zentrale, immer wiederkehrende Themen, die teils bis heute verhandelt werden: Wo sind die Grenzen der Wissenschaft, wo jene der Literatur? Wer entscheidet über Norm, Gesundheit und Wahnsinn? Wie wird Wissen produziert, verhandelt und konsolidiert?

Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer¿s Twilight (2005) and Seth Grahame-Smith¿s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009). It asks how the shifting cultural values of Austen and the vampire have aligned, and what their connection might mean for their respective contemporary legacies. It also makes a case for reading ¿low brow¿ Austen fanfic attentively, as a way to gain meaningful insight directly from Austen fans into the tensions and anxieties surrounding contemporary notions of love, sex, femininity, and Austen¿s modern currency. Offering close readings of Austen¿s vampire-slaying heroines, vampiric retellings of Pride and Prejudice, and the transformation of Austen herself into a vampire, this book reveals Austen-vampire mashups as messy, complex entanglements that creatively and self-reflexively interrogate modern fantasies of vampire romance. By its unique intersection of Jane Austen with the vampire, the Gothic, fan culture and popular romance, Jane Austen and Vampires adds a new chapter to the history of Austen¿s reception, for fans, students and scholars alike.

Through a carefully-chosen selection of medieval love letters, Myra Stokes and Ad Putter explore the blurred boundary between literary art and actual missives. This anthology brings together epistolary poems, model letters and real letters and includes critical editions of seven remarkable and substantial texts not easily available elsewhere.

This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters ¿ mourning and resilience ¿ are theoretical frameworks that have so far not been brought into conversation in this way. The combination of trauma studies and autobiographical analysis sharpens the focus of the discussions on Indian Ocean life writing, privileging an Indian Ocean imaginary that is transnational and cross-oceanic in its orientation and pointing to networks of connections that transcend the nation state, which is often the origin of trauma in the first place. Filling a gap in Indian Ocean studies in its close readings of trauma and resilience, the book also broadens perspectives on postcolonial life writing since little attention has been paid so far to Indian Ocean autobiographical literary products. By the same token, the volume also enriches the field of Indian Ocean literary studies by incorporating life writing as an aesthetic strategy which helps to configure Indian Ocean subjectivities.

This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, spanning cultures and schools of thought. Drawing on philosophical, religious and psychological theories of the soul, it emphasizes the far-reaching and enduring epistemological function of the concept in literature, art and politics. The authors argue that the concept of the soul has shaped the understanding of human life and persistently irrigated cultural productions. They show how the concept of soul was explored and redefined by writers and artists, remaining relevant even as it became removed from its ancient or Christian origins.

This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, historical and cinema studies. It asks how we may best ¿face up¿ to work that has been done already in these fields, and speculates about work that might yet be done, especially by medievalists working across medieval and postmedieval sources. In the idiom ¿facing up,¿ its editors evoke the impulse to assess and realize the place of medieval studies in the burgeoning field of emotions research. Conceptually, psychologically, and artistically, the face is perceived as being at the forefront of many human interactions and emotional practices ¿ as such, the face is not only a powerful conceptual site for theorizing human relationships, past and present, or a site for the representation of emotion: it is itself a catalyst for feeling. As such, the contributions gathered here provide a cutting-edge reflection on the history of medieval emotions.

Was macht den Comic als Medium aus? Wer oder was macht ihn zu einem Medium? Für die Erforschung von Comics gibt es bislang keinen allgemein verbindlichen Medienbegriff: Zu divers scheinen sie, wenn sie aus Texten und Bildern arrangiert, in Zeitungen gedruckt, als Hefte gesammelt, als graphic novels besprochen oder auf Smartphones gelesen werden. Die Medien des Comics entwickelt ein Medialitätsmodell, mit dem sich der medialen Bestimmung von Comics gerade in ihrer Veränderbarkeit nachgehen lässt. Medialität wird dazu als ein Verbindungsprinzip verstanden, nach dem die Einrichtung eines bestimmbaren Mediums Comic aus Materialien, Zeichen und Institutionen stetig neu vollzogen wird. Analysen zeigen auf, wie heterogene Akteure diese modernen Medienbestimmungen verändern - und wie dabei Kontroversen hinsichtlich der Mediengeschichte, Nostalgie, Selbstreflexivität und Materialität von Comics aufkommen. Dabei führen die Fallbeispiele von der Vergangenheit der comic strips und comic books zu aktuellen Entwicklungen im Zusammenhang mit Smartphones, Webcomics und Blogs. Der Band richtet sich an Comicforschende unterschiedlicher Disziplinen sowie an Medienwissenschaftler:innen, die sich mit Transformationsprozessen auseinandersetzen.

Wenngleich der Forschungsstand, wenn es sich um die intendierte Textaussage des Musil¿schen ¿uvre handelt, durch das Fehlen einer Opinio communis gekennzeichnet ist, tritt die vorliegende Studie den Beweis an, dass eine ebensolche freizulegen ist. In Musils Opus magnum laufen die konzeptionellen Fäden zusammen, die bereits in seinem ersten Roman angelegt sind. In seiner trieb-teleologischen Skepsis beschäftigte ihn die Realisierbarkeit eines neuen Menschentypus ¿ eines Mannes ohne Eigenschaften ¿, dessen Zweck darin bestanden hätte, dem Zueilen auf den großen Weltuntergang etwas von seiner Dynamik zu nehmen und möglichen Großkonflikten so vorzubeugen. Denn die Freud¿sche Triebskepsis, die Musil früh zu eigen war, wurde zu seinem treuen weltanschaulichen Begleiter und gewann von Werk zu Werk an geschichtlicher Schärfe.

Ferdinand von Schirach war lange Strafverteidiger, bevor er mit dem Erzählband Verbrechen einen sensationellen Debüterfolg feierte. Seither hat er ein umfangreiches und vielfältiges literarisches Werk veröffentlicht. Mit über 10 Millionen verkauften Büchern und Übersetzungen in über 40 Ländern gehört Schirach zu den meistgelesenen deutschen Gegenwartsautoren. Wie erklärt sich dieser Erfolg? Was zeichnet seine Texte aus, ästhetisch, diskursiv und politisch? Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Beiträge untersuchen Schirachs Werk aus literatur-, kultur- und rechtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive: seine Poetik, seine Medien und vor allem seine Verbindung von Literatur und Recht.

Este libro explora la caracterización y el rol del judío en uno de los textos antisemitas más polémicos del siglo XVII en España: el Centinela contra judíos, compuesto por el franciscano Fray Francisco de Torrejoncillo. Mediante la primera transcripción completa y anotada del Centinela en español, nuestro trabajo brinda a los lectores hispanohablantes una edición académica accesible, que por primera vez distingue con claridad los textos de las ediciones madrileñas de 1674 y 1676, que contienen notables diferencias no señaladas antes por la crítica. También ofrecemos un análisis literario y cultural del Centinela, utilizando el aparato de la teratología con el fin de identificar y reconocer a su judío como monstruo en lugar de ser humano.

The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direct influence of German role models on Romanian culture be discussed, but it will also show how this influence set in motion a whole series of socio-cultural and artistic shifts that allowed Romanian culture to better understand its position in the European world.Das Buch enthält Beiträge zur Bedeutung der deutschen Kultur für die rumänische Kunst, Sprache und Literatur. Erörtert wird nicht nur der direkte Einfluss deutscher Vorbilder auf die rumänische Kultur, sondern es wird auch aufgezeigt, wie dieser Einfluss eine ganze Reihe soziokultureller und künstlerischer Veränderungen in Gang gesetzt hat, die der rumänischen Kultur ermöglichten, ihren Platz in der europäischen Welt besser zu verstehen.

¿Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period¿s literature. The book takes two authors as case studies ¿ Gerald of Wales and Walter Map ¿ to show how authors not only built their own stories but also used popular narratives and the tools of propaganda to achieve their own, personal goals. The purpose of this study is to overturn the top-down model of political patronage, in which patrons ¿ and particularly royal patrons ¿ set the cultural agenda and dictate literary tastes. Rather, Fabrizio De Falco argues that authors were often representative of many different interests expressed by local groups. To pursue those interests, they targeted specific political factions in the changeable political scenario of Angevin England. Their texts reveal a polycentric view of cultural production and its reception. The study aims to model a heuristic process which is applicable to other courtly texts besides the chosen case-studies.

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge¿s engagement with ¿Whig poetry¿: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the 1790s, Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse, even as he favoured radical social change. Jacob Lloyd argues that the poets Mark Akenside, William Lisle Bowles, and William Cowper each provided Coleridge with a kind of Whig poetics to which he responded. When these references are understood, much of Coleridge¿s work which seems purely personal or imaginative gains a political dimension. In addition, Lloyd reassess Coleridge¿s relationship with Thomas Percy¿s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, to provide an original, political reading of ¿The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere¿. This book revises our understanding of the political and poetic development of a major poet and, in doing so, provides a new model for the origins of British Romanticism more broadly

Wer im Bereich kulturwissenschaftlicher Linguistik forscht und sich insbesondere für Interkulturalität und Mehrsprachigkeit interessiert, erhält durch diesen Band einen facettenreichen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsgegenstände, -fragen und -methoden. Das Spektrum der Beiträge reicht von Traditionslinien und theoretischen Zugängen über interkulturell-linguistische Untersuchungen von Sprache und Kontexten ihrer Vermittlung bis hin zu kritisch-reflektierenden Auseinandersetzungen mit Zugängen und Anwendungsfeldern. Gemeinsam ist den Beiträgen dabei nicht nur die Darstellung der Vielschichtigkeit von Interkulturalität, die sich anhand der jeweils gewählten Zugangsweisen zeigt, sondern auch die dadurch erforderliche Interdisziplinarität.Mit Beiträgen vonMohcine Ait Ramdan | Silvia Bonacchi | Marek Cieszkowski | Waldemar Czachur | Françoise Gallez | Manon Hermann | Veronika Elisabeth Künkel | Björn Laser | Laura Lemarque | Yonatan Mendel | Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer | Daniel Hugo Rellstab | Jörg Roche | Gesine Lenore Schiewer | Ferran Suñer | Joachim Warmbold

A.N. Wilson is a noted and prize winning biographer with studies of Tolstoy, Dickens, Milton and C.S. Lewis to his credit among others. Here he turns his outstanding gifts to a study of the life and thought of Goethe - poet, dramatist, politician. Goethe's life touched every aspect of what made the world become modern. And the great poetic drama of Faust is in essence the story of this. Not a biography in the traditional sense, Wilson breaks the mould - it is the portrait of an age seen through the prism of Goethe's continuing obsession with the Faust myth - the story of a German necromancer who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. The relevance of this will not escape the modern reader and Goethe is shown to be one of the great prophets of modern Europe, the Europe of today.

This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and symbolic capital. Taking a geocritical approach, the book shows how its different case studies can be seen as ¿literary capitals¿ in terms of their role within the wider nation, region or empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One discusses Kolkata, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. Part Two considers ¿semi-peripheral¿ European cities: Pest-Buda (Budapest), Helsinki and Dublin. Part Three focuses on cities within Italy: Trieste, Florence and Rome. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts and different genres, the book reads the nineteenth-century literary field as a constellation where different connections can be plotted across various points on the map at different times.

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing¿two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities. Starting from the numerous and surprising points of connection and resemblance between both authors¿ texts, this book puts pressure on critical practices that would keep writers like Laing and Browning separate, positing instead the importance of paying attention to the transnational, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal imaginative relationships texts themselves generate. By comparing two writers whose texts represent different points of view on a number of shared and congruent contexts, this book seeks an original way of understanding the relationship between texts and (post-) colonial contexts, texts and other texts. Browning¿s and Laing¿s shared tendencyto foreground trans- and post-national cartographies of relation and difference, and their similarly translational aesthetics, both demand a probing of the disciplinary separation between ¿English Literature¿ and ¿Comparative Literature¿, as well as ¿literature¿ and ¿comparison¿, and a fresh awareness of the ways in which literature itself makes comparisons and affiliations. It also involves a version of ¿world literature¿ intent on accentuating the relational worlds (linguistic, imaginative, ethical) that texts themselves generate; a criticism sensitive to the ways in which writers from different times and places can still be seen to overlap.

"Delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.

Spain's decadence and England's rise to power is commonly believed to be the result of the uncontested victory of the English navy over Philip II and the Duke of Medina Sidonia's obsolete and slow Spanish Armada in 1588. Recurrent images of the Protestant God-sent winds and storms against England's enemies, the genius of Queen Elizabeth I and the audacity of Sir Francis Drake, mythological gods for the English nation but piratical devils for the Spaniards, have contributed to a "Britannia rules the waves" mentality among the British. Writers, historians, politicians and artists have repeated these die-hard clichés at different times of Britain's history depending on the specific political circumstances of the time. The list of contributors to the construction of the national English/British identity is long: William Cecil, David Hume, Oliver Pigg, Petruccio Ubaldini, John Strype, Lord Macaulay, Thomas Deloney, Edward Clarke, Thomas Lathbury, William Camden, James Anthony Froude, James Aitken Wylie, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Southey, Geoffrey Parker and Colin Smith, many editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, films, TV, the radio, the internet, the church pulpit...

Der Band versammelt zentrale Arbeiten von Susanne Günthner, die in ihrer thematischen Vielfalt stets Sprache in ihrem Sitz im Leben, der Interaktion und in ihrer Fülle an sozialen und kulturellen Funktionen betrachten. Die vorliegenden Beiträge spiegeln dabei die Bandbreite ihrer langjährigen Forschung wider, die von der Analyse grammatischer Strukturen interaktionaler Sprache - wie z.B. Projektorkonstruktionen oder Diskursmarker - über die Beschäftigung mit sprachlichen Mustern in kommunikativen Praktiken und Gattungen bis hin zu anthropologisch-linguistischen Perspektiven u.a. auf doing gender , auf die kommunikative Konstruktion von Kultur oder auf Aspekte medizinischer Kommunikation reicht.