Ritchie Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ritchie Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ritchie |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1913 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John T. Hamilton , France/Kafka: An Author in Theory
Das Handwerk der Literatur. Eine Geschichte der Moderne 1775–1950. Von Michael Bies. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022. 442 Seiten + 1 Abbildung. €44,00 gebunden, €34,99 eBook
Das Handwerk der Literatur. Eine Geschichte der Moderne 1775–1950 . Von Michael Bies. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022. 442 Seiten + 1 Abbildung. €44,00 gebunden, €34,99 eBook. Despite its cryptic title and its rather ambitious subtitle, this is a book of considerable originality and interest
Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
Notes1 Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley, 3 vols. (London, 1994), i. 1001 (ch. XXV).2 See James A. Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 525.3 Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (London: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 192, p. 197.4 See Stuart Atkins, The Testament of Werther in Poetry and Drama (Cambridge, MA…
Popularität“ in der deutschen Hochaufklärung. Konzepte der Wissenspopularisierung zwischen Volksaufklärung und philosophischer Ästhetik. Von Korbinian Lindel. Würzburg: Ergon, 2022. 152 Seiten. €34.00…
„Popularität“ in der deutschen Hochaufklärung. Konzepte der Wissenspopularisierung zwischen Volksaufklärung und philosophischer Ästhetik . Von Korbinian Lindel. Würzburg: Ergon, 2022. 152 Seiten. €34.00 broschiert oder eBook. This concise, densely written study deals with the
‘Verdammte Staats-Klugheit / die Treu und Bund heist brechen!’ Reason of state in Lohenstein’s Cleopatra
Although the tragedies of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–83) are nowadays known mainly to specialists in the Baroque, they amply repay attention. Set in the ancient world or the modern Ottoman Empire, they explore politics in the coolly realistic light of ‘reason of state’, a doctrine prominent in early modern absolutism. They are indebted also to neo-Stoicism. These features are illustrated by a close study of the tense intrigues and double-…
Kafka's Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic
In this readable and engaging book, Anne Jamison clears away some long-standing misapprehensions about Kafka's relation to the Czech language and provides much valuable information about its importance for him, particularly in the last six years of his life when he was a citizen of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Kafka spoke Czech fluently and read it easily. Since Jamison, who is familiar with Czech, tells us there is a wide difference (as in m…
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
This original and engaging book raises large questions about how historians should treat legal and narrative sources. Its subject is the notorious Court Jew, Joseph Süss Oppenheimer (1697?–1738), who as a banker and an adviser to Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg made himself so unpopular that as soon as his ducal protector died, he was arrested, tried, and finally executed. Although, or because, the charges against him were nebulous, they gener…
The Enlightenment in New Focus
Enlightenment scholars have had some difficulty in getting the German Enlightenment in focus. If one's conception of the Enlightenment has been shaped by reading Peter Gay and Robert Darnton, then the German Enlightenment fails to fit their model. France offers us the picture of an intelligentsia, largely located in the capital, maintaining a degree of independence with some help from patrons, and in many cases opposed to the governing regime. Wh…
Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World
Slavonic and East European Review, 95, 2, 2017 REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World RITCHIE ROBERTSON, SIMON DIXON and WENDY BRACEWELL Kitromilides, Paschalis M. (ed.). Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2016:02. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2016. xii + 329 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index.£70.00: €82.00: $88.00 (paperback). On occasion, a book appea…
Everyday transcendence? Robert Musil, William James, and mysticism
In the early twentieth century, as a reaction against scientific positivism, a widespread interest in mysticism developed, especially among German writers. Mystical experience in the form of 'epiphanies' was described by the psychologist William James and explored by the novelist Robert Musil. In his novel The Man without Qualities, Musil proposes an approach to mysticism which captures the phenomenology of the experience and makes it available f…
Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment
The Catholic Enlightenment: Some Reflections on Recent Research
The Catholic Enlightenment, long ignored by scholarship, has been brought sharply into focus by numerous recent publications. After surveying some leading features of the Catholic Enlightenment, this essay considers a useful Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe and a study of Enlightenment in the intellectual and social lives of German Benedictines. Some of this research suggests that German historiography shows a Protestant bias whi…
Weltliteratur from Voltaire to Goethe
Goethe is reported by his secretary Eckermann as saying on 31 January 1827: ‘National-Literatur will jetzt nicht viel sagen, die Epoche derWeltLiteratur ist an der Zeit’1 (‘National literature no longer means much, the age of world literature is at hand’). We need to pause over this famous statement and look at it in its immediate and its wider context. Can we be sure that Goethe actually said it? How Eckermann composed his record of Goethe’s con…
Wieland's Nude Bathers: Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze
In her essays on Wieland, written around 1980, Elizabeth Boa went against contemporary fashion both by praising a neglected writer and by vindicating the role of pleasure in the reception of literature. She noted how Wieland varies a literary topos – a man watching a woman bathing naked – by letting women watch men bathing naked. This topos most often occurs in the pastoral, a popular eighteenth-century genre. Various examples are examined to sho…
Jews and other Germans: Civil society, religious diversity, and urban politics in Breslau, 1860–1925
Till van Rahden University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 viii + 477 pp., US$65.00 (cloth) US$29.95 (paperback) ISBN 978‐0‐299‐22694‐7 Till van Rahden belongs to the generation of non‐Jewish historians w
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
Mockepic Poetry From Pope To Heine
This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relatons, and on a range of satiri…
The Trial
A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly co-operative, but capable of horrific violence. Faced with this ambiguous authority, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. He consults various advisers without escaping his fate. Was there some way out that he failed to see? Kafka’s unfinished novel…
Byron's Don Juan
Byron's great poem is shown to owe large and partly unrecognized debts to Italian romance epic and to mock epic, including that of Wieland, and also to the Italian verse‐tales of the Abbate Casti. Don Juan is also shown to criticize Homeric epic for its stress on warfare, thus joining a well‐established tradition of epic criticism, and to continue a number of themes from the ‘Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes’, taking a largely conservative st…
In the Cathedral
K. was given the task of showing a very important Italian business associate of the bank, who was visiting the city for the first time, some of its artistic treasures. It was a task which at any other time he would have regarded as...
In the Penal Colony
‘ It is a remarkable apparatus,’ said the officer to the enquiring traveller,* surveying the apparatus with some admiration in his eyes, though it must have been long familiar to him. It seemed that it was only out of courtesy that the...
The metamorphosis and other stories
The Man who Disappeared (America)
Entering New York harbour, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, ‘her arm with the sword stretched upward’. This forbidding introduction sets the tone for Kafka’s narrative about an innocent European astray in an ultra-modern America that is both a fantasy and an object of social satire. Expelled by his family after seduction by a maidservant, Karl finds in America a series of surrogate families, but he continues to get in…
Virtue Versus ‘Schwärmerei’ in Lessing's Emilia Galotti
‘Tugend’ (virtue) is a complex concept with both classical and Christian sources. It often means a virtuous disposition which is prior to the exercise of specific virtues. In many eighteenth‐century contexts its meaning shifts from a cognitive concept to an emotional one, dependent on what Shaftesbury called the ‘moral sense’. In Emilia Galotti , Odoardo and Appiani consider themselves and each other highly virtuous, yet their virtue seems strang…
Nietzsche and Zion
Book Review| April 01 2006 Nietzsche and Zion Nietzsche and ZionGolomb, Jacob Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2006) 31 (1): 71–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717877 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ritchie Robertson; Nietzsche and Zion. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 April 2006; 31 (1): 71–72. doi: https://do…
Urheimat Asien’ the Re‐orientation of German and Austrian Jews, 1900–1925
Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World
Slavonic and East European Review, 95, 2, 2017 REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World RITCHIE ROBERTSON, SIMON DIXON and WENDY BRACEWELL Kitromilides, Paschalis M. (ed.). Enlightenment and Religion in the Orthodox World. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2016:02. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2016. xii + 329 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index.£70.00: €82.00: $88.00 (paperback). On occasion, a book appea…
On the Threshold of Patriarchy: Brentano, Grillparzer, and the Bohemian Amazons
The interpretation of dreams.
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (New York: Carlton House, 1900), 380
Edwin Muir and Rilke
Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature
Sander L. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews
Kafka--Judaism, Politics, and Literature
From the Ghetto to Modern Culture: The Autobiographies of Salomon Maimon and Jakob Fromer
On the Threshold of Patriarchy: Brentano, Grillparzer, and the Bohemian Amazons
Urheimat Asien’ the Re‐orientation of German and Austrian Jews, 1900–1925
Mothers and Lovers in Some Novels by Kafka and Brod
Gender studies using literary materials have as yet said little about the part played by separation from the mother in shaping masculinity. Its importance is illustrated from three novels by Kafka and Brod. In Der Verschollene , mother‐figures are threatening or untrustworthy, and sexually active women arouse fear. Brod's Das große Wagnis expresses frankly the nostalgia of adult men for nonsexual maternal love, and assigns women a quasi‐religious…
Freedom and pragmatism: Aspects of religious toleration in eighteenth‐century Germany
L'A. se penche sur la tolerance religieuse recherchee par le pouvoir et les philosophes au XVIIIeme siecle en Allemagne a l'epoque des Lumieres. Il etudie ce theme dans la pensee allemande, notamment chez Lessing, sous ses divers aspects politiques, economiques, moraux, philosophiques et culturels
Nietzsche's Women: Beyond the Whip
Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and pol…
Rafael Seligmann's Rubinsteins Versteigerung: The German-Jewish Family Novel before and after the Holocaust
Melancholy Pride: Nation, Race and Gender in the German Literature of Cultural ZionismGelberMark H. Melancholy Pride: Nation, Race and Gender in the German Literature of Cultural Zionism Conditio Juda…
The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought: Orphans of KnowledgeSorkinDavid The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought: Orphans of Knowledge The Sherman Lectures, Manchester University, 19…
The ‘Jewish Question’ in German Literature 1749–1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents
This book is a literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight and drawing on a wide range of literary texts, this book offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. It examines both literary portrayals of Jews by Gentile writers — …
The "Jewish Question" in German Literature 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents
The "Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontent
German-Jewish Cultural Identity from 1900 to the Aftermath of the First World War: A Comparative Study of Moritz Goldstein, Julius Bab and Ernst Lissauer
Freud's Theory and its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies: An Introduction (review)
Freud's Theory and its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Henk de Berg. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. xii + 155 pp. $60.00
A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti
New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti. The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute witnesses and analysts of the mass movements and wars of the first half of the 20th century. Born a Sephardic Jew and raised at first in the Bulgarianand Ladino languages, he chose to write in German. He was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his oeuvre, whi…
Nietzsche and Zion
Book Review| April 01 2006 Nietzsche and Zion Nietzsche and ZionGolomb, Jacob Ritchie Robertson Ritchie Robertson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2006) 31 (1): 71–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717877 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ritchie Robertson; Nietzsche and Zion. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 April 2006; 31 (1): 71–72. doi: https://do…
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
Mockepic Poetry From Pope To Heine
This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relatons, and on a range of satiri…
The Trial
A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly co-operative, but capable of horrific violence. Faced with this ambiguous authority, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. He consults various advisers without escaping his fate. Was there some way out that he failed to see? Kafka’s unfinished novel…
Byron's Don Juan
Byron's great poem is shown to owe large and partly unrecognized debts to Italian romance epic and to mock epic, including that of Wieland, and also to the Italian verse‐tales of the Abbate Casti. Don Juan is also shown to criticize Homeric epic for its stress on warfare, thus joining a well‐established tradition of epic criticism, and to continue a number of themes from the ‘Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes’, taking a largely conservative st…
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