Bücher von E. S. Shaffer

This important study outlines the development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism, especially its German origins and its reception in England. The author also examines the influence of this movement in the work of specific writers: Coleridge, Hoelderlin, Browning and George Eliot.

Topics covered in this volume include literary Chinese as a language for science, the history and principles of scientific translation in Europe, the theatrical panorama in the 19th century and its roots in optical theory and experiment, and an alternative perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Literary theory's stress on performance leads back, paradoxically, to the exploration of practical knowledge - skills, intuition, wisdom. Michael Robinson's leading article examines the mutually defining properties of (female) gender and performance in the nineteenth century.