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  • Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) had an immense impact throughout Europe. His hist... Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) had an immense impact throughout Europe. His historical fiction which brought the ideas of Enlightenment to bear on the novel created for the first time a sense of the past as a place where people thought felt and... more
  • Just over a century after his death Walter Pater s critical reputation now sta... Just over a century after his death Walter Pater s critical reputation now stands as high as it has ever been. In the English-speaking world this has involved recovery from the widespread neglect and indifference which attended his work in the first... more
  • James Joyce is now widely considered the most influential writer of the twenti... James Joyce is now widely considered the most influential writer of the twentieth century. His name and his most important works appeared again and again in fin-de-millennium surveys. This is the case not only in the English-speaking world but also... more
  • Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science with an exten... Charles Darwin is a crucial figure in nineteenth-century science with an extensive and varied reception in different countries and disciplines. His theory had a revolutionary impact not only on biology but also on other natural sciences and the new... more
  • This volume of international research provides a wide-ranging account of Jane ... This volume of international research provides a wide-ranging account of Jane Austen s reception across the length and breadth of Europe from Russia and Finland in the North to Italy and Spain in the South. In historical terms the survey ranges from... more
  • Robert Burns (1759 -1796) Scotland s national poet and pioneer of the Romantic... Robert Burns (1759 -1796) Scotland s national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron with 21 Norwegian translations... more
  • The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley s wri... The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley s writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses they evoked. If radical readers cherished the red... more
  • The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assess... The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. These essays prepared by an international team of scholars critics and translators record the ways in which Virginia Woolf... more
  • The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers in Europe cannot... The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers in Europe cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. This collection of 14 essays prepared by an international team of scholars critics and translators records how... more
  • The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assess... The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes . These essays prepared by an international team of scholars critics and translators record the ways in which David Hume... more
  • The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British and Irish writers in Eur... The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British and Irish writers in Europe cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. This collection of essays prepared by an international team of scholars critics and translators record... more
  • Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literature... Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704) Gulliver s Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) the Dean of... more
  • Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has re... Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate. The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and the nine volume edition of Burke s Writings and Speeches... more
  • This collection of essays prepared by an international team of scholars critic... This collection of essays prepared by an international team of scholars critics and translators records the ways in which James Joyce s work has been received translated and published in different areas of Europe. Joyce is now widely considered one... more
  • The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers in Europe cannot... The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers in Europe cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. This collection of 14 essays prepared by an international team of scholars critics and translators records how... more
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