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.

• 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

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.