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The author traces the successive stages of Thackeray's contact with the German world and analyses the discourse he developed as a result. The German Sketch Book' which is built up embraces the fiction and criticism of Thackeray's Paris Sketch Book and the impressions related by the cockney' traveller in Irish Sketch Book and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. Thackeray's own pictorial illustrations of his writings, and those by C...

Based on an intensive study of the original German text of Freud's writings, letters and journals, S. S. Prawer's new book is the first to make a full and systematic map of Freud's use of English literature.

Werner Herzog's Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (1979) is one of the masterpieces of the New German Cinema of the 1960s and 70s. Adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula, and mindful too of F. W. Murnau's earlier German film version of that same novel, Herzog's film is perhaps the most compelling screen treatment of the vampire myth. In this comprehensive account of Nosferatu, S. S. Prawer begins with discussion of Stoker's book, the cultural fascin...

Jews have been well represented in the cinema industry from the beginning of the film era: behind the screen, as producers, distributors, directors, script-writers, composers, set designers, and on the screen, as Jewish actors and as named Jewish characters in the film's plot. Some of these characters are fictional, others, ranging from Rabbi Loew of Prague to Ferdinand Lassalle and Alfred Dreyfus, have a historic original. This book examines ...

Explores how the world of imaginative literature-poems, novels, plays-infused and shaped Marx's writings, from his correspondence, to his pamphlets and major works. This title gives an analysis exploring Marx's use of literary texts, from Aeschylus to Balzac and the central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision.

This copiously illustrated study focuses, for the first time in any language, on the whole range of Thackeray's verbal and graphic portraits and caricatures of European men, women and children of his own and earlier periods. It takes its readers on what he called a 'Roundabout Journey' in which they look, through the eyes of a variety of narrators and personae, at natives of France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, the Habsburg Empire, Poland, Russ...

Jews have been well represented in the cinema industry from the beginning of the film era: behind the screen, as producers, distributors, directors, script-writers, composers, set designers, and on the screen, as Jewish actors and as named Jewish characters in the film's plot. Some of these characters are fictional, others, ranging from Rabbi Loew of Prague to Ferdinand Lassalle and Alfred Dreyfus, have a historic original. This book examines ...

The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar, and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally qu

The book seeks, for the first time in any language, to combine Thackeray's many depictions of, and comments on, Jews and Judaism, from Old Testament times to his own present, into a coherent, chronologically ordered narrative. Texts and early versions that have not found their way into the collected editions are considered alongside well-known passages from "Barry Lyndon, "Vanity Fair, "The Newcomes and "Rebecca and Rowena. Since Thackeray ill...