This thesis identifies the interplay of queerness and irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the ...
This is a reply to John Morrill's "Charles I, Cromwell and Cicero," which was written in response to Dale B. J. Randall's "The Head and the Hands on the Rostra: Marcus Tullius Cicero as a Sign of Its Times."
Erörterung des One-Sex Models in
Margaret Cavendishs "Assaulted and Pursued Chastity" und Einordnung dessen unter Betrachtung von Thomas Laqueurs One-Sex Theorie.
The essay examines the three major prophecies in Piers Plowman and argues that the prophecy-riddles are not satiric, but correspond to larger themes within the work as a whole, and may even be regarded, since they are ...
The essay traces the proportion of prose in Shakespeare's plays, identifying genre and chronology as the two major variables influencing the rise and fall over time.
The essay examines Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year in light of Thomas Vincent's treatise God's Terrible Voice in the City (1667). Rosen argues that Defoe subverts the typological framework of plague and fire ...