Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters

Sandro Jung is distinguished professor of English at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and past president of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.Michael Wood is British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

In this volume, illuminating essays by both preeminent authorities and up-and-coming scholars persuasively challenge prevailing concepts of cultural exchange, its conditions, and results, applying a broad spectrum of methods from German and British literary studies, comparative and translation studies, biography, and computational text analysis.

• AcknowledgmentsIllustrations and TablesNote on the TextIntroduction: Traditions and Genres in DialogueMichael WoodChapter One: British Ghosts of the Gothic Novel: Dramatic Adaptation as a Medium of Anglo-German Cultural Transfer in the 1790sBarry MurnaneChapter Two: “From Scotland New Come Home”: Scottish Ghosts and Afterlives of Bürger’s “Lenore”Lucy WoodChapter Three: Of German Genres and Scottish Sentiments: Henry Mackenzie, Walter Scott, and the SchauspielMichael WoodChapter Four: Kotzebue’s Adaptations of English Comedies: Colman, Cumberland, and Conservatism after 1815Johannes BirgfeldChapter Five: Surveying Shakespeare’s Impact on German Drama: Taking a Computational Approach to an EpochNils Reiter and Marcus WillandChapter Six: Milton in Germany: Translation and Creative ResponseJohn GuthrieChapter Seven: The Female Body in Text and Image: Amelia, Lavinia, and Musidora in the German Translations of Thomson’s The Seasons and BeyondSandro JungChapter Eight: Studen