Perspectives on Travel Writing

Glenn Hooper

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 19
• Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Tra... Lees meer

Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth

Christopher Braider

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 23
• In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition... Lees meer

Proust at the Movies

Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu.... Lees meer

Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Michael J Sosulski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 37
• In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheat... Lees meer

The Thriller and Northern Ireland Since 1969

Aaron Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge... Lees meer

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

Tony Kushner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many differ... Lees meer

Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793

Gregory S Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 33
• The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book describes the form, the meaning, the achievements, and ... Lees meer

Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture an... Lees meer

Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793

Gregory S Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 33
• The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book focuses on the first professional association for creat... Lees meer

The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969

Aaron Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge... Lees meer

Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England

Liz Oakley-Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with tr... Lees meer

Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770 1914

Katherine Haldane Grenier

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become... Lees meer

Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 14
• This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contrib... Lees meer

Romancing Decay

Michael St John

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from ... Lees meer

The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory

Justin Clemens

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 17
• Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justi... Lees meer

The Poetics of Transubstantiation

Douglas Burnham

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 27
• The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from th... Lees meer

Devolving Identities

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in contine... Lees meer

Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris

Mariac Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its ... Lees meer

The Poetics of Transubstantiation

Douglas Burnham

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from th... Lees meer

Romancing Decay

Michael St John

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 3
• This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from ... Lees meer

Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England

Liz Oakley-Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 34
• In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with tr... Lees meer

Authority, State and National Character

Helmut Kuzmics, Roland Axtmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition | nr. 36
• This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with h... Lees meer

Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth

Christopher Braider

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition... Lees meer

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'

Tony Kushner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in European Cultural Transition
• Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many differ... Lees meer