Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s : The Long Eighteenth Century
Batchelor, Jennie;Powell, Manushag N.;Batchelor, Jennie;Powell, Manushag N.
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This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's mag...
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Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s : The Long Eighteenth Century
2018
This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century .
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Women's periodicals, English--History--18th centuryContent provider:
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The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective
Patrick Bridgwater;Patrick Bridgwater
The first full-length study of the main German contributors to the Gothic canon, to ea...
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The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective
2013; Vol. 00165
The first full-length study of the main German contributors to the Gothic canon, to each of whom a chapter is devoted, The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective is an original historical and comparative study that goes well beyond the necessary review of the evidence to include much new material, many new insights and pieces of analysis, and some fundamental changes of perspective. The book aims to put the record straight in bibliographical and literary historical terms, and to act as a reference guide to facilitate future research, so that anyone working on the German Gothic novel or on Anglo-German interactions in the field of Gothic, will find there references to all the relevant secondary literature. The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective is addressed to Germanists, but also to teachers and students of English, American and comparative literature, for there is at present hardly a ‘hotter'subject than Gothic. The book's emphasis on the Gothic work of canonical writers should prompt even conservative German Departments to reconsider their attitude to Gothic. Being addressed to scholars and students of German, German quotations are given in German, but English translations are added for the convenience of English and American scholars and students of Gothic, who represent another important section of the books'target audience.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), German--History and criticismContent provider:
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The Teller's Tale : Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers
Sophie Raynard;Sophie Raynard
This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers...
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The Teller's Tale : Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers
2012
This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries , have been either little known or known through skewed, frequently sentimentalized biographical information. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were cast as exemplars of national virtues; Hans Christian Andersen's life became—with his participation—a fairy tale in itself. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the prim governess who wrote moral tales for girls, had a more colorful past than her readers would have imagined, and few people knew that nineteen-year-old Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy conspired to kill her much-older husband. Important figures about whom little is known, such as Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, are rendered more completely than ever before. Uncovering what was obscured for years and with newly discovered evidence, contributors to this fascinating and much-needed volume provide a historical context for Europe's fairy tales.
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Fairy tales--Authorship - Fairy tales--History and criticism - Authors--Biography - Children's literature, European--History and criticismContent provider:
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(Re-)Writing the Radical : Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France
Maike Oergel;Maike Oergel
The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and po...
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(Re-)Writing the Radical : Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France
2012; Vol. 00032
The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790s either in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and transformation. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the “fate” of the Enlightenment, its radicalization and its “overcoming” in aesthetic and political terms, and of the way in which political “paranoia”, generated by the fear of a spreading revolutionary radicalism, facilitated and influenced the cultural transfer of the “radical”. The collection will be of interest to scholars in French, German, English, and comparative studies working on the later 18th century or early 19th century . It is of particular interest to those working on the impact of the French Revolution, those engaged in reception studies, and those researching the interface between political and cultural activites. It is also of key interest to intellectual historians of this period, as well as general historians with an interest in modern conservatism and radicalism.
