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There was no single 'Elizabethan stage'. Early modern actors exploited various opportunities for patronage and profit between the 1570s and 1642, whether touring, or performing at inns, in country houses, in purpose-built theatres, at court, at the universities or at the inns of court. This authoritative and comprehensive collection of new essays explores the social, political, and economic pressures under which the playing companies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries operated. It shows how t...

Hamanns Autorschaft ist stark auf die Rezipienten ausgerichtet. Seine ausgepragte Dialogizitat wird in Untersuchungen zur Intertextualitat, zu Briefgesprachen, Metaphorizitat und Rhetorizitat exemplarisch an drei Werken (Versuch einer Sibylle uber die Ehe, Konxompax und Schurze von Feigenblattern) nachgewiesen. Dabei ist Hamann zentral durch den Kondeszendenzgedanken beeinflusst: So wie sich Gott in Natur, Geschichte und Schrift offenbart, um eine Beziehung zum Menschen zu ermoeglichen, will auc...

In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation. She demonstrates that through allegory, modernism became a style itself, a style that married the ancient and the modern and that emerged as both a cause and an effect, both an ideal construct and an textual materiality, all symbolized by the Orient-land of style, place of...

Dieser Band, als Festschrift fur Wolfram Kroemer konzipiert, ist der floralen Motivik sowie, in Anlehnung an Charles Baudelaires Gedichtband Les Fleurs du Mal, den Bluten des Boesen in der Literatur gewidmet. Die inhaltlich vielfaltigen Beitrage unterstreichen die Omniprasenz der Blumenmetaphorik quer durch die Literaturgeschichte der Romania und verweisen mitunter auf die Bedeutung der Blume als Spiegel asthetischer und weltanschaulicher Neuerungen. Dem weiten Betatigungsfeld des Jubilars entsp...

This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that at...

This is an essential early Johnson biography, recovered from obscurity and reissued in celebration of the tercentenary of Johnson's birth. This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins' Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, ""Hawkins' Life"" complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's L...

This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context of agnosticism - as stories which reveal a society struggling with Christian orthodoxy in a new 'Enlightened' world. This book, however, uses theological ideas from St Augustine through to modern theologians to identify a theological journey taken by the protagonists of such stories, and charts each stage of this journey through the short...

Dombey and Son (1846-48), Dickens's seventh novel, stands at the mid-point of his career. It was begun in Switzerland after a break from near-continuous novel writing and bears the hallmarks of its long gestation and Dickens's deepening engagement with the many cross-currents shaping Britain's social, cultural and political life. Predominant among them are public debates about the need to provide schooling for young children, ethical questions prompted by the demolition of neighbourhoods to make...