Women in revolutionary debate. Female novelists from Burney to Austen.
In the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries novels were believed to have the power to shape and/or change behaviour, and, by implication, affect the political landscape of society on a large scale. The English response to the French Revolution can be traced through a reading of the nove... More info
Western Travellers in China. Discovering the Middle Kingdom.
This book accompanied the exhibition "Western Travellers in China" held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, 28 October 2009-10 January 2010. For centuries, China has aroused considerable interest in the Western world. In this book a selection of 130 volumes from a large collection of trave... More info
`Nel mezzo del cammin...`. A Dante Journey through 700 Years of Text and Images. Edited by Livio Ambrogio, Eng...
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana within the framework of Europalia 2003 Italia. The catalogue casts an eye over seven centuries of the `fortuna` of Dante as seen in editions of his work. Some of them are important, others are merely curious but they may yet be significa... More info
Little Rhymes by Hans Christian Andersen, with Little Photos by Harald Paetz.
This beautiful facsimile volume represents the first ever printing of Andersen`s Fotograferede Børnegrupper in English. This book is a collaboration between Andersen, who wrote the verse, and the famous early Danish photographer Harald Paetz. The illustrations in the book are albumen prints of posed... More info
The triple Fool. A criticial evaluation of Constantijn Huygens` Translations of John Donne.
The author delineates Donne`s immediate sociocultural and literary heritage, with special emphasis on those poems Huygens translated. More info
Leonhard Culmann. A literary Biography and an Edition of five Plays, as a Contribution to the Study of Drama i...
The five German plays by Leonhard Culmann (c. 1500-1561), originally published between 1539 and 1547, are typical in quality and structure for much of the dramatic production of the time. This is a text-edition of same, preceded by an extensive biography and followed by a voluminous apparatus of not... More info
Salvator mundi. L`
The theme of Joseph (Genesis 37-50) was immensely popular during the sixteenth century, and flourished especially in contemporary German Theatre. This comprehensive analysis offers a complete parnorama of the social, economical and political realities of the period, emphasizing the religious and ped... More info
An Analysis of the English poetry of St. Thomas More.
The first study to deal with Thomas More`s English poetry. More info