Read the Rules \WO kinds of letters cross every desk. One— paper, ink and formality — goes the way of the waste-paper basket.
It feels since Ive taken the letters I wrote to Cett and Surd and what I wrote to you to be printed that Im reaching nearer a place where I shall be able to make things reach you more by ways that arent through spoken or written words than before, but Im not sure of that, and I cant understand it clearly with my mind, I can understand theyre often only like a trail or scent, perhaps theyre alwa…
2009 was the bicentenary of the birth of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893). Bringing together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence, the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake reveals significant new material about this extraordinary figure in Victorian society. The scope of Lady Eastlake’s writing is w…
Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective tool for rendering aspects of historicity, liminality, marginalization and the expression of subjectivity vis-à-vis an ‘other’; it is also due, however, to the artistica…
Die Herausbildung der Neugermanistik in Österreich und Deutschland in Briefen: Zwei entscheidende Akteure, August Sauer (Prag) und Bernhard Seuffert (Graz), berichten über ihre Pläne, Laufbahn, Vernetzung mit einflussreichen Germanisten, über Zeitschriftengründungen, wissenschaftliche Großprojekte, Berufungen, die Germanistik im politischen und kulturellen Kontext der Zeit. Doch auch um d…