Jost Schneider 
Sozialgeschichte des Lesens [PDF ebook] 
Zur historischen Entwicklung und sozialen Differenzierung der literarischen Kommunikation in Deutschland

Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ – probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume – exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the …

This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its …

‘My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to D …

This study examines Tennyson”s portrayals of the erotic and creative impulses, reading the poet”s ubiquitous lover-artists as tropes that figure the desire for transcending the state of being human …

‘Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald”s major texts, from ”After Nature” to ”Austerlitz”, …

Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman s Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as feudal obsessed with the nob …

First published in 1991, Textual Communication examines the character and development of the novel from Richardson to Nabokov in relation to the printing and publishing industry. The book blends lite …

Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in …

Examines the complex relationship between the reality of the Palestinian minority in Israel and their literature through six novels, according to a literary communication model which enables Dr Taha …

In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American w …