Beck Andreas Beck & Kaminski Nicola Kaminski 
Literatur der Fruehen Neuzeit und ihre kulturellen Kontexte [PDF ebook] 
Bochumer Ringvorlesung im Sommersemester 2011

This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant …

Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene ‘will seeme displeasaunt’ to those who would ‘rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way …

In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world …

Who”s Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare”s plays. It provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * …

Shakespeare”s plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic …

Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of fe …

Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. …

Winner of the 2018 International Standing Conference for the History of Education”s First Book Award Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s Bri …

Jane Austen is not usually associated with children – especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a …

This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews …