The Spanish Road and the Spanish Match: Early Modern News and Mobilities

Presentation (2022, March 30)

Bücherschau

in Shakekespeare Jahrbuch (2021), 157

Telling Tales of Empire in Contemporary British Popular Culture

in Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian (Eds.) And Hereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales (2020)

Virginia Mason Vaughan. Shakespeare and the Gods. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2019; and Jonathan Bate. How the Classics Made Shakespeare. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

in Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2020), 156

Dickens as an Agent of Change

Book published by Cornell University Press - 2nd ed. (2019)

Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy ... [more ▼]

Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable's protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholars—Malcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracy—suggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens changed the life of one eminent Dickensian. [less ▲]

Early Modern Spectacles

in Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2018), 25(2), 121-228

Englands dramatische Geschichte: Shakespeares Histories

in Singh, Sikander; Leber, Manfred (Eds.) Literatur und Geschichte (2018)

A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990)

in Reinfandt, Christoph (Ed.) Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2017)

A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession (1990) revolves around questions of writing the past, more particularly the Victorian past, from the perspective of the late twentieth century. As outlined in the essay ... [more ▼]

A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession (1990) revolves around questions of writing the past, more particularly the Victorian past, from the perspective of the late twentieth century. As outlined in the essay, Byatt’s novel stages various forms of possession, both material and immaterial, linking them to issues of identity and female autonomy as well as to epistemological and ethical notions of poetry and imagination. Possession is an ambivalent text in that it problematizes the ontological, epistemological and methodological problems of writing the past; at the same time, the novel asserts the desire to acquire knowledge of the past, exploring literary genres, poetry and imagination as various means of opening the past to the present. As a Neo-Victorian text, Possession re-evaluates perceived cliches about the Victorian age, rewriting it as an era of a benign humanism that counteracts late-twentieth-century doubts and insecurities. [less ▲]

Returns to Religion

in Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2015), 151

Alternative Worlds: Popular Fiction (Not Only) for Children.

in Berberich, Christine (Ed.) The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction (2015)