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Das englischsprachige Buch "The Investigators of Crime in Literature" befasst sich mit der Entwicklung der Kriminalliteratur von den Anfängen im 19. Jahrhundert bis zu den sogenannten "Golden Twenties" des 20. Jahrhunderts - eine der wichtigsten Perioden der Kriminalliteratur. Daneben wird auch die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Polizei in Großbritannien in groben Zügen dargestellt. Um die Entwicklungen besser zu veranschaulichen, wird der Prozess anhand von populären Beispielen der Literatur vorgestellt: Charles Dickens' Inspektor Bucket, Edgar Allan Poes C. Auguste Dupin und Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes spielen ebenso eine wichtige Rolle wie Agatha Christies berühmter Meisterdetektiv Hercule Poirot. Neben einer Charakterisierung dieser Protagonisten wird auch ihre Arbeits- und Vorgehensweise anhand exemplarisch ausgewählter Fälle demonstriert.
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
In Defiance of Time explores the emergence of antiquarianism in early modern England, from its first flourishing in the mid-Tudor period through to its seventeenth-century heyday. A vibrant antiquarian culture emerged, which reached beyond scholarly and historical circles, and had a profound influence on the literature and thought of the period. Examining the influences on that development of that culture, this book argues that the origins of English antiquarianism need to be found in the methods and practices of continental (and especially Italian) humanism. It shows that, like the humanists, the early antiquaries had the essentially imaginative aim of resurrecting and recomposing the past ...
The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas, Adam R. Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explaining how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge. This “industrialization of ideas” mirrored the industrialization of the American economy and catered to the demands of a new industrial middle class for practical and professional education....
In this timely collection, an international team of Renaissance scholars analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world. Ranging widely across visual and textual artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of body, city, nation and empire, Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britian argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain.
Since the 1970s there has been a broad and vital reinterpretation of the nature of literary texts, a move away from formalism to a sense of literature as an aspect of social, economic, political, and cultural history. While the earliest New Historicist work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history, it also served as an important stimulus for post-structuralist, feminist, Marxist, and psychoanalytical work, which in turn has increasingly informed and redirected it. Recent writing on the nature of representation, the historical construction of gender and of the concept of identity itself, on theatre as a political and economic phenomenon, and on the ideologies of art generally, reveals the breadth of the field. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture is designed to offer historically oriented studies of Renaissance literature and theatre which make use of the insights afforded by theoretical perspectives. The view of history envisioned is above all a view of our history, a reading of the Renaissance for and from our own time. Book jacket.
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