Speakers | Publications

A substantial body of scholarship on Anglo-German relations, the History of the Book, and Romanticism, has enriched our understanding of London and intercultural exchanges. This page provides a brief overview of a few selective publications our colloquium speakers.

Sibylle Erle

Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy, 2020.
with Morton Paley, eds. The Reception of William Blake in Europe, 2019.

Graham Jefcoate

An Ocean of Literature: John Henry Bohte and the Anglo-German Book Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century, 2020.
Editor, with G. Grote and S. Eschenburg. Catalogue of English Books. Printed before 1801. Held by the University Library at Göttingen Part Four, 2 vols., 2017.
Deutsche Drucker und Buchhändler in London 1680–1811. Strukturen und Bedeutung des deutschen Anteils am englischen Buchhandel, 2015.

Eugenia Perojo-Arronte

Hispanic Literature in the British Romantic Periodical Press (RTI2018-097450-B-1000)
'The Spanish Translation of Hugh Blair's Lectures: An Early Anglo-Hispanic Canon'' Comparative Critical Studies 18.1 (2021): 53-72.
'Coleridge's Criticism of the Don Juan Tradition', in Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution: British Views on Spain 1814-1823, 2019.
'Coleridge and Spanish Literature', in Spain in British Romanticism, 1800-1840, 2018.
'Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Don Quixote', Cervantes. Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 2014.

James Raven

'Distribution: The Transmission of Books in Europe and its Colonies: Contours, Cautions, and Global Comparisons'. In The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450-1850: Connections and Comparisons. Edited by Joseph P. McDermott and Peter Burke, pp. 147–180. 2015.
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England, 2014.
The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850, 2007.
Lost libraries: the destruction of great book collections since antiquity, 2004.
London booksellers and American customers: transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811, 2002.
with Peter Garside and Rainer Schöwerling The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles. Volume II: 1800-1829, 2000.

Elinor Shaffer

Series Editor of the The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe. 26 volumes. Including recent volumes on
- The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe
- The Reception of William Blake in Europe
'Coleridge's Dialogues With German Thought', The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2012.
'Shaping Victorian Biography', in Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography. Edited by Peter France and William St Clair, 115-134. 2002.
The Communities of Europe. Volume 15 of Comparative Criticism, 1993.
Literature and Science. Volume 13 of Comparative Criticism, 1991.
Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer, and Art Critic, 1988.
'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem. The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880, 1980.

James Vigus

'"You surely don't wish to cure Anglomania with Anglophobia": Henry Crabb Robinson's Debate on National Character and the English Reception of German Literature in the Neue Berlinische Monatschrift in 1803.', Angermion, 2016.
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy, edited by Klaus Vieweg, James Vigus and Kathleen M. Wheeler, 2013.
Henry Crabb Robinson: Essays on Kant, Schelling and German Aesthetics, 2010.

Maximiliaan van Woudenberg

Coleridge and Cosmopolitan Intellectualism. The Legacy of Göttingen University, 2018.
'The Göttingen Library Borrowings of English Matriculants, 1798-1801', The Library, 2016.
'The University of Göttingen and Anglo-German Interchange', 2015.

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