An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.
Until today, the death of Charles VI and Maria Theresia{u2019}s ascending the throne 1740 is seen as a major turning point in Austrian history. But now is the question of whether in different 2layers3 and 2rooms3 without doubt fundamental change between 1720 and 1780 not differe…
Der Tiroler Adelige Oswald von Wolkenstein (um 1376-1445), ein einzigartiger Exponent spätmittelalterlicher deutscher Lyrik, hat neben seinem künsterischen Werk Briefe, Urkunden und Akten hinterlassen, die seine persönliche ritterliche Karriere und das standestypische Leben sein…
The Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca 1376 - 1445) is considered to be the most important German poet and composer of the Late Middle Ages. Besides his songs and compositions more than 1000 documents bear evidence of his chivalrous career and the medieval life of the lo…
Das im 3. Band edierte Quellenmaterial aus Archiven und Bibliotheken Österreichs, Italiens, Deutschlands, Tschechiens und der Schweiz präsentiert Oswald von Wolkenstein als Rechtssachverständigen, Krieger, Diplomaten, Fürstendiener und unermüdlichen Politiker. Er führt Fehden un…
The historical source materials edited in the 3rd volume, which were collected in more than 40 archives and libraries in Austria, Italy, Germany, Czechia and Switzerland, present Oswald von Wolkenstein as a legal expert, warrior, diplomat, princely servant as well as unrestless …
While the first volume presented a younger son of a family of Tyrolese nobility, who strived after social advancement throughout Europe and who succeeded to act the part of a special advisor in service of the sovereign, the documents of his life in the second volume concentrate …
Hatte der erste Band einen jüngeren Sohn aus Tiroler Adelsfamilie vorgestellt, der sich umtriebig in ganz Europa um Aufsteig bemühte und dem es gelang, die Rolle eines Sonderberaters im Dienst des Reichsoberhaupts zu spielen, so konzentrieren sich die "Lebenszeugnisse" des zweit…
Der erste Band der fünfbändigen Buchreihe stellt den jüngeren Sohn aus landsässiger Tiroler Adelsfamilie als einen umtriebig um Aufstieg bemühten Junker vor. Nach unsteten Jahren als adeliger Krieger, Kreuzfahrer und Verwaltungsfachmann beim Bischof von Brixen gewinnt er mit sei…
The first of five volumes presents the younger son of Tyrolean country gentry as a squire bustling striving for social advancement. After unsteady years as a noble warrior, crusader and expert for public administration with the Bishop of Brixen, with his admittance to the Servic…
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to provide new critical approaches to the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. By reading one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages alongside …
This collection of essays examines the roles women have played in interrogating, forming, informing and reforming political discourse, cultural tradition and ceremony, social mores and the patronage and definition of art since the Renaissance.
Philip Roth has been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Philip Roth collects new essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels appearing in recent years, American …
by Hubble, Nick, McLeod, John, Tew, Philip
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"How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contem…
by Tew, Philip, Horton, Emily, Wilson, Leigh
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"How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associate…
Despite poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. This volume sets new standards by applying current theoretical approaches to the questio…
Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses invol…
