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Globalisation, devolution and the challenges of a postcolonial and multicultural society have fuelled the debate about national identity in Britain in recent years. Notions of individual and collective identity have revolved around a number of stereotypes of ‘Britishness’ or ‘Englishness’ which appear ever more incongruous. This study suggests that these debates still draw...
Palgrave Macmillan
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / English Modern Literature (Habermann)
This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe. The volume brings together literary and cultural studies, history, and political science in an integrated analysis of views and...
Manchester University Press
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / English Modern Literature (Habermann)
This collection of twelve original essays explores the politics of tale-telling across the field of English Studies. A programmatic introduction uses the fuzzy boundaries of tales to argue that their indeterminacy and polymorphous quality is responsible for the endless attraction, proliferation, and transgressive potential of the ‘tale’ as a literary form. The case studies address...
FAU University Press
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / English Modern Literature (Habermann)
Rostek, Joanna; Zwierlein, Anne Julia; Habermann, Ina
English Topographies in Literature and Culture takes a spatial approach to the study of English culture. In order to gain a fresh perspective on constructions of English cultural identity, the collection treats geography, social spaces and spatial practices as well as representations of space and place as complex constellations termed ‘cultural topographies’. Individual contributions...
Koninklijke Brill NV
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / English Modern Literature (Habermann)
This essay focuses on Henry V in order to refine our understanding of Shakespeare’s distinctive contribution to the history play in the 1590s. In particular, I argue that Shakespeare enlists the imaginary powers of the audience to bring history to life, and that, to this end, he parallels the mystery of successful performance with the mysticism surrounding kingship. Just as the natural...
Cambridge University Press
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / English Modern Literature (Habermann)
The introduction outlines the collection’s approach to Shakespeare and the study of space, giving an overview of work previously done in the field and offering a taxonomy of notions of space as a theoretical basis for the detailed treatments in the individual essays: (1) structural/topological space, (2) stage space/setting/locality, (3) linguistic/poetic space, (4) social/gendered space,...
Palgrave Macmillan
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / English Modern Literature (Habermann)
