Litteraturstudier: fra 1600 til 1800

This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which Polish immigrants have conceptualised their own experiences and encounters with Britain and the British. Second, it examines how Poles and Poland have been represented by Anglophone writers in both fictional and non-fictional forms of discourse. Inevitably, these issues are intertwined. Polish experiences of Britain have been shaped, in part, by British ideas about Poland, just as British notions of Poland have been transformed by the emergence of large and culturally active Polish communities in the UK. By studying these issues together, this volume develops a wide-ranging and original analysis of Polish Britain.

Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre's historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the Spanish Golden Age in particular. The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón's El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633-36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual. By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.

"This is the first study of the relationship between French theater and war at a time of revolution and colonial violence. Drawing together theater and performance studies, literary close-reading, cultural, military and gender history, it provides holistic analysis of theater's engagement with military activity at a time of radical transformation"--

A poet who crafted thegreatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. His Paradise Lost is a touchstone of English literature.In the latest entry in Ig's celebrated Bookmarked series, author Ed Simon considers Paradise Lost within the scope of his own alcoholism and recovery, the collapse of higher education, the imbecility ofthe canon wars, the piquant joys of labyrinthine sentences, and the exquisiteattractions of Lucifer. Milton is easy to respect and easier to fear, but withthe guidance of Simon, Milton becomes easiest of all to love. Paradise Lost mayhave generated thousands of works of criticism over the centuries, but none ofthem are like this.

Choosing the right words is itself an act of caregiving. Centring on correspondence archives allows pastoral letters to be analysed as a distinct literary genre that contributed in complex ways to early modern practices of caregiving, negotiating political oppression, geographical isolation, and colonial experimentation. Forms of care were solicited, given, and received through the material technology of the letter as a literary artefact. The exchange of letters created new bureaucratic and pastoral structures and entanglements between Protestant believers and others across the British Atlantic and reveals the contentious balance between care and cure within early modern communities. Pastoral care involves exercising power: epistolary exchanges sustain, exploit, shape, and distort the spiritual and material wellbeing of individuals and communities in a landscape fissured by religious division, enslavement, and imperial expansion.

This book analyzes Jonathan Swift¿s Gulliver¿s Travels from a political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on politics in Swift¿s writings, this has usually meant a study of how Swift located himself on issues of his day such as church and state, and Ireland. Robertson claims by contrast that Gulliver¿s Travels is fundamentally a book about the ¿ancients¿ (e.g. Plato, Aristotle), and the ¿moderns¿ (science and technology), and their contrasting views about the human condition. The claim that the Travels is ¿a kind of prolegomenä to political philosophy leaves open the possibility that it does not achieve, or seek to achieve, a fusion of various teachings but rather uses the device of alien societies to point us to uncomfortable aspects of political philosophy¿s ¿larger questions¿ we are prone to ignore. Swift, Robertson argues, draws our attention to some version of the classical republic, as idealized in Aristotle¿s political writings andin Plato¿s Republic, as opposed to a modern regime which, at its best or most intellectual, emphasizes modern science and technology in combination as a way to improve the human condition.

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.

In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts avanciert die Erinnerung zu einem zentralen Gegenstand der deutschsprachigen Lyrik. Das bislang in der Forschung weitgehend marginalisierte Genre der Erinnerungslyrik wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit erstmals systematisch erschlossen. Die Untersuchung ist zum einen auf die lyrische Inszenierung von Erinnerungsakten, -orten und -objekten ausgerichtet. Zum anderen wird diskutiert, inwieweit sich insbesondere in der Geschichts-, Denkmals- und Trauerlyrik erinnerungspoetische Formationen herausbilden. Die künstlerisch anspruchsvollen und zeitreflexiven Erinnerungsgedichte August von Platens und Eduard Mörikes werden in zwei eigenständigen Fallstudien behandelt.

This is the first study in English of the vast literary output of Catherine the Great.

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through an exploration of two chronologically distant societies in crisis, this study compares the attitudes, beliefs, and conduct of the public portrayed in the book and those in our own embattled Covid era. There are interesting similarities to note, with equivalents to the Covid-deniers and the anti-vaxxers to be found in Defoe's bleak vision of London in the 1660s as it descends into a state of chaos. JPY offers us some uncomfortable truths about human nature that resonate strongly in our own times, revealing how responding to a pandemic can bring out both the best and the worst in our character as we face up to a world where the old certainties no longer seem to apply. Pandemics expose the fault-lines in ideology, putting the social contract at risk - the question they pose is whether we can continue to rely on our current socio-political set-up or whether it requires a radical rethink. There is a pressing need for more debate on this issue, and this project is designed to make a case for that.

"Matthew Leporati examines the explosive Romantic revival of epic alongside the contemporary revival of missionary activity. His study contributes to charged political debates around British imperialism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

The Philosophical Transactions and the letters preserved in the Royal Society¿s archives provide precious insights into the making of science and the workings of the Republic of Letters in the early and late modern periods. This book investigates the Royal Society¿s relations with Italy through a socio-historical and critical linguistic analysis of the papers concerning Italian research published in the Transactions and of the epistolary exchanges between the Society¿s Fellows and Italian scholars. The aim, from the linguistic perspective, is to describe the features and development of papers based on Italian research published in the journal, as well as the discursive aspects that characterise the exchanges between the two countries. Ultimately, from the historical and cultural point of view, the study will provide a picture of the development of Anglo-Italian relations in scientific context from the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century.

Im Fokus dieses interdisziplinären Bandes stehen Phänomene der kulturellen Aneignung in der Vormoderne. Dabei geht es weniger um das konkrete ,Was', sondern das ,Wie' der Aneignung. Im ,Framing', vor allem aber im Prozess von ,Deframing' zu ,Reframing' ist das ,Aneignen' bereits praxeologisch enthalten. Strukturen, Mechanismen und Strategien der ,Framing'-Prozesse und damit verbundene kulturelle Produktivität werden ebenso beleuchtet wie über sie (re-)produzierte Machtverhältnisse. Gefragt wird nach der Motivation und dem Engagement der Akteur:innen, die angeeignete Gegenstände in neuen Deutungsmustern positionieren, den Bedingungen, unter denen sich solche Gegenstände für eine Übernahme anbieten, sowie den Mechanismen der ,Framing'-Prozesse selbst und den daraus resultierenden Verschiebungen und neuen Formationen. Vereint werden historische, germanistische, kunst- und literaturhistorische, ethnologische und theologische Zugänge.

"Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life"--

The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English

"Two centuries of sexism obscured Staèel's legacy. John Isbell here restores her reputation as historian, theorist of Romanticism, and Revolutionary, revealing her abolitionist and anti-imperialist commitment. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

Drawing on scholarly research, artist experience, and audience behaviour, This Distracted Globe considers the disruptive, affective, phenomenological, and generative potential of distraction in contemporary performance at the Globe.

Thomas Durfey¿s Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a bragging French coxcomb, and two hoydenish romps courted by fortune-hunting schoolmasters with treats of custard and cheesecake. An imperious plotting lady, together with her henpecked husband and her rascal lover, provide timely anti-Jacobite satire. This critical edition offers a fully annotated text and an introduction that places the comedy in its literary and theatrical context. The editors review Durfey¿s career and his redefinition of the comedy of wit, veering towards the exemplary in line with the moral values of the new regime.

Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700¿1766) ist eine zentrale Figur der europäischen Aufklärung. Das Handbuch stellt seine Arbeiten in den Bereichen der Poetik, Rhetorik, Philosophie und Sprachforschung dar. Die Poetik erschließt sich mit Blick auf Gattungsdifferenzierungen (Lyrik, Epik, Dramatik, Korrespondenz und Literaturkritik), hinsichtlich einschlägiger poetologischer Traditionslinien (Antike, Französischer Klassizismus, Barock) und in Kollaboration mit anderen Autor*innen, ganz besonders mit Luise Gottsched (1713¿1762). Sein ¿uvre, dessen Wirkungen und Rezeptionen werden dabei in der Spannung zwischen normpoetischem Anspruch, aufklärerischer Didaxe und proto-ästhetischem Innovationspotenzial diskutiert.

In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not where he wrote any of his plays, and there's nothing inside the house that once belonged to Shakespeare himself. So why, for centuries, have people kept turning up on the doorstep? Richard Schoch answers that question by examining the history of the Birthplace and by exploring how its changing fortunes over four centuries perfectly mirror the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself.Based on original research in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and featuring two black and white illustrated plate sections which draw on the wide array of material available at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book traces the history of Shakespeare's birthplace over four centuries. Beginning in the 1560s, when Shakespeare was born there, it ends in the 1890s, when the house was rescued from private purchase and turned into the Shakespeare monument that it remains today.

The seven novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë took advantage of the change spurred on by the Industrial Revolution in order to argue-often obliquely but at times directly-for equality for women in the Victorian Age.