Intermediales Text-Theater: Die Bühne des Politischen und des Wissens vom Menschen bei Wordsworth und Scott

Kai Merten

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Intermediales Text-Theater

Die Bühne des Politischen und des Wissens vom Menschen bei Wordsworth und Scott

Intermedial Text Theatre: Staging Politics and Anthropology in Wordsworth and Scott

Kai Merten

Volume 43 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339000

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About this book

This book discovers the latent working of the theatre in British Romantic literature. It shows how two central writers, Wordsworth and Scott, were fascinated by theatre conceptions that could not be implemented on the British stage, and how they both addressed and practised this theatre in their own texts.

The book works out the importance of the theatre both as a medium and as a discursive field to address aesthetic, political and epistemic questions around 1800. It proceeds to explore the failing implementation of this modern theatre in early dramas of Wordsworth and Scott and its continuing influence on their later works. Detailed analyses of Wordsworth’s poetry and Scott’s novels illustrate how both writers used the genres they chose to develop a specific form of textual theatre. Finally, the study shows how this theatre returned to the British stage to influence subsequent periods of theatre practice.

This book, which also develops a new integrative model of intermediality, is relevant for everybody interested in British Romanticism or generally keen to learn about the fascinating relationship of literature and theatre.

first study of the influence of theatre practice on the poetics and main themes of British Romantic literature
among the few studies to explore the intermediality of literature and theatre
develops a new model of literary intermediality

Author / Editor information

Kai Merten, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Danksagung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Vorwort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Inhaltsverzeichnis Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Systematische Vorüberlegungen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Historische Voraussetzungen: Theaterkultur und Theaterkonzepte um 1800 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. Wordsworth und Scott auf dem Theater: The Borderers und The House of Aspen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
4. William Wordsworth: Das Theater des Menschen in der romantischen Versdichtung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
5. Walter Scott und das Roman-Theater: Subjekt, Monarch, Volk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
6. Zusammenfassung der Textlektüren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
7. Ausblick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Literaturverzeichnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (English Studies, Literary and Theatre Studies), Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 440
Keywords: British Romanticism; Text and Theatre; Intermediality; Media History

eBook

Published: October 10, 2014
ISBN: 9783110339000

Hardcover

Published: September 29, 2014
ISBN: 9783110326550