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1	Camb Hist of Literary Criticism V5 more books like this by Marshall Brown (Editor), H B Nisbet (Editor), Claude Rawson (Editor) This volume of the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism series addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen chapters are by internationally-respected academics and explore a range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help readers locate essential information and to develop ... see all copies from $30.58! new only from $36.26! \| first editions
2	Freud's Literary Culture more books like this by Graham Frankland, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This original study investigates the role played by literature in Sigmund Freud's creation and development of psychoanalysis. Graham Frankland analyses the whole range of Freud's own texts from a literary-critical perspective, providing a fresh and comprehensive reappraisal of his life's work. Freud was steeped in classical European literature but ... see all copies from $19.55! new only from $50.81! \| first editions \| SVS
3	G.W.F. Hegel--Political Writings more books like this by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, Lawrence Dickey (Editor), H B Nisbet (Preface by) This major addition to the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access to both the practical and the metaphysical aspects of Hegel's political thought. The ethical and metaphysical texts in this collection both illuminate and contrast with those political and historical ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $9.98! \| SVS
4	Lectures on the Philosophy of World History: Introduction, Reason in History more books like this by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, D Forbes (Editor), H B Nisbet (Editor) An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister's ... see all copies from $54.60! new only from $80.00! \| SVS
5	Philosophical and Theological Writings more books like this by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H B Nisbet (Translator) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $64.83!
6	Women Writers and National Identity: Bachmann, Duden, Ozdamar more books like this by Stephanie Bird, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) In Women Writers and National Identity, Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers. Bird argues for the importance of an understanding of ambiguity, tension and contradiction in the fictional narratives of Ingeborg ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $85.41!
7	Literature and German Reunification more books like this by Stephen Brockmann, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This book is a systematic attempt to examine the literary consequences of German reunification. Placing the concept of the Kulturnation at the centre of its analysis, the book explores the ways in which literature both responds to and helps to constitute notions of German national identity. Previous studies of German literature have tended to ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $46.64! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Dear Purchase more books like this by J Stern, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This book studies individual works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the 'dear purchase', an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the ... see all copies from $42.55! new only from $71.25! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics more books like this by Lesley Sharpe, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This is the first general study of Friedrich Schiller's works to appear in English for over forty years. Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics. His works are viewed against the social, political and literary ... see all copies from $63.86! new only from $63.86! \| SVS
10	German Romantic Literary Theory more books like this by Ernst Behler, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) The emergence of a new theory of literature in the German Romantic period constituted a decisive turning point in the history of criticism. Prepared by new trends in critical thought during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed which diverged sharply from the dominant classicist ... see all copies from $57.80! new only from $57.80! \| SVS
11 view cover	Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile more books like this by Ronald Speirs (Editor), H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. In these essays, a strong team of contributors take the poems as the focal ... see all copies from $31.13! new only from $78.71!
12 view cover	Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition more books like this by Judith Ryan, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Judith Ryan reveals how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day ... see all copies from $42.77! new only from $42.77! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Lessing: Phil Theological Writings more books like this by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H B Nisbet (Editor), Karl Ameriks (Editor) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $28.43! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, the Eighteenth Century more books like this by H B Nisbet (Editor), Claude Rawson (Editor) This is the most comprehensive account to date of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of ... see all copies from $32.75! new only from $45.00!
15	Die Wahlverwandschaften by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Hans Siegbert Reiss see all copies from $7.57!
16	Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: The Theaters of Consciousness more books like this by Benjamin Bennett, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This focuses on von Hofmannsthal's lifelong concentration upon a single cohesive set of poetic, philosophical and ethical concerns. It examines his work in the context of literary theory and the history of philosophy, especially to Nietzsche, German Idealism and the poetics of German Classicism. see all copies from $116.95!
17	Frankenstein's Island: England and the English in the Writings of Heinrich Heine more books like this by Siegbert Salomon Prawer, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women, institutions and politics, and books and journals of his own day; and to have extended his observation backwards into English history and literature of the ... see all copies from $40.00!
18 view cover	The Plays of Heinrich Von Kleist more books like this by Sean Allan, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This is a new and accessible study of the plays of Kleist (1777-1811), who ranks with Goethe and Schiller amongst nineteenth-century authors and who has been a major influence on contemporary German writers. Sean Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic metaphysics, notably his suggestion that the ... see all copies from $57.80! new only from $57.80! \| SVS
19	Herder and Scientific Thought, more books like this by Hugh Barr Nisbet see all copies from $35.64! new only from $35.64!
20 view cover	Theatre in Vienna more books like this by W E Yates, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This is the first general history in English of theatre in Vienna, the one German-speaking city which, in the eighteenth century and for most of the nineteenth, sustained a theatrical life comparable to that of Paris or London. The book covers this theatrical culture from the beginnings of modern theatre in 1776 to the present day, relating it to ... see all copies from $57.80! new only from $57.80! \| SVS
21 view cover	Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871 more books like this by Todd Curtis Kontje, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period, he shows the historical and thematic coherence of a body of fiction by women that has ... see all copies from $42.77! new only from $42.77! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Herder and the philosophy and history of science more books like this by H. B. Nisbet see all copies from $88.93! first editions
23 view cover	Theatre in Vienna: A Critical History, 1776-1995 more books like this by W E Yates, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor) This is the first general history in English of theatre in Vienna, the one German-speaking city which, in the eighteenth century and for most of the nineteenth, sustained a theatrical life comparable to that of Paris or London. The book covers this theatrical culture from the beginnings of modern theatre in 1776 to the present day, relating it to ... see all copies from $75.39!
24	Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge : historical essays : in commemoration of the quatercentenary more books like this by Derek Edward Dawson Beales, Hugh Barr Nisbet Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, founded by Lady Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex and aunt of the poet Philip, received its charter in 1596. This volume, compiled to celebrate the quatercentenary of the College, draws on its largely unexplored archives and on the evidence of excavations to illuminate the history of the College. Subjects covered ... see all copies from $68.01! first editions
25 view cover	Camb Hist of Literary Criticism V2 more books like this by Professor Alastair Minnis (Editor), H B Nisbet (Editor), Claude Rawson (Editor) This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the major European vernaculars, and Byzantine Greek. Starting with the study of grammar and the formal 'arts' of poetry, letter-writing and preaching, it proceeds to offer a full description of the Latin ... see all copies from $145.00! new only from $203.68!

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