Anglo-German dramatic and poetic encounters : perspectives on exchange in the Sattelzeit / edited by Michael Wood and Sandro Jung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Michael, 1986- editor.

Jung, Sandro, editor.

Series:

Studies in text and print culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--English and German.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--German and English.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bethlehem [Pennsylvania] : Lehigh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German exchange in the Sattelzeit. It offers new perspectives on the movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : traditions and genres in dialogue / Michael Wood

British ghosts of the Gothic novel : dramatic adaptation as a medium of Anglo-German cultural transfer in the 1790s / Barry Murnane

"From Scotland new come home" : Scottish ghosts and afterlives of Bürger's "Lenore" / Lucy Wood

Of German genres and Scottish sentiments : Henry Mackenzie, Walter Scott, and the Schauspiel / Michael Wood

Kotzebue's adaptations of English comedies : Colman, Cumberland, and conservatism after 1815 / Johannes Birgfeld

Surveying Shakespeare's impact on German drama : taking a computational approach to an epoch / Nils Reiter and Marcus Willand

Milton in Germany : translation and creative response / John Guthrie

The female body in text and image : Amelia, Lavinia, and Musidora in the German translations of Thomson's The seasons and beyond / Sandro Jung

Student experiences : John Stuart Blackie and William Edmonstoune Aytoun in Germany (1829-30 and 1833-34) / Bernhard Maier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781611462920

1611462924

OCLC:

1090428690