Katharina Herold-Zanker

Gebundenes Buch

Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920

'The Indispensable East'

Beschreibung

This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring the relationship between Orientalism, Decadence, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that representations of the East played a critical role in the literary landscape of Decadence over this period.

Autor

Katharina Herold-Zanker is an Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at Durham University. Her principal interests are in late-Victorian literature, Comparative Literature and twenty-first century drama. Her journal publications include an article on intermediality in the Decadent performance of Anita Berber and an article for ^iFeminist Modernist Studies on war plays written by Mina Loy, Vernon Lee and Else Lasker-Schüler. After finishing her doctorate at Oxford, she was employed at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she started research on her current project investigating the impact of feminist literary theories on contemporary Anglophone drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 145mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198880974
• ISBN-10: 0198880979
• Artikelnr.: 69729670