Anne Julia Zwierlein Knihy

A.-J. Zwierlein / J. Rostek: Literatures of Brexit: An Introduction – K. Sandrock: Border Thinking, Brexit and Literature – C. Berberich: Our Country, the Brexit Island: Brexit, Literature, and Populist Discourse – J. Kosmalska: The Response of Polish Writers to Brexit – M. Tönnies / D. Henneböhl: Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit – F. Meifert-Menhard: Ian McEwan’s Brexit Politics in (a) Nutshell – C. Reinfandt: Brexit and the Lost Cause of Progressive Patriotism: Some Thoughts on Billy Bragg – Reviews: Robert Eaglestone, ed. (2018), Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses – Christa Jansohn, ed. (2018), Brexit Means Brexit? The Selected Proceedings of the Symposium, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz 6–8 December 2017 – Monika Pietrzak-Franger (2017), Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility – Eike Kronshage (2018), Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel – Sarah Herbe and Gabriele Linke, eds. (2017), British Autobiography in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

The Conference of the German Association for the Study of English (Anglistentag) took place at the University of Regensburg from 21 to 23 September 2017. It was organised by Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Jochen Petzold, Katharina Boehm and Martin Decker. Section I: Digital Humanities: The Role of the Digital in English Philology Helen Baker, Sabine Bartsch, Matthias Bauer, Matthias Eitelmann, Annika Elstermann, Nicola Glaubitz, Matthias Hofmann, Christian Mair, Manfred Markus, Tony McEnery, Ilka Mindt, Josef Schmied, Ulrike Schneider, Peter Uhrig, Angelika Zirker Section II: The Value of Economic Criticism Reconsidered: Approaching Literature and Culture through the Lens of Economics Dorothee Birke, Ellen Grünkemeier, Melissa Kennedy, Benjamin Kohlmann, Nora Pleßke, Joanna Rostek, Natalie Roxburgh, Barbara Straumann Section III: Women in Men's Shoes: 'Sheroes' in Literatures and Cultures of the British Isles, the Commonwealth and Beyond Johannes Fehrle, Wolfgang Funk, Philip Jacobi, Caroline Lusin, Stefanie Schäfer, Wieland Schwanebeck, Christine Schwanecke Section IV: The Reformation in the English-Speaking World Katrin Berndt, Anne Enderwitz, Ralf Haekel, Lukas Lammers, Katrin Röder, Kirsten Sandrock, Felix C. H. Sprang Section V: Adaptations, Creations and Transformations: Teaching Literature Today Gabriele Blell, Claudia Deetjen, Maria Eisenmann, Susanne Heinz, Christian Ludwig, Christiane Lütge, Kerstin Theinert

This collection responds to recent developments in Gender Medicine and the literary and cultural history of medicine. Bringing together scholars from Medical and Humanities departments, it uses case studies to investigate the gendered construction of disease from medieval times until today. The influence of gender on the creation of medical knowledge is now recognized within various branches of the medical field: genetic research, therapy, and investigations into biologically versus life style induced types of disease. In British and American literary and cultural studies, the narrative, dramatic and cinematic representation of diseases and medical knowledge and practice, as well as the cultural history of gender-specific diseases, have long been a thriving areas of research. The collection intervenes in these debates by reexamining gendered cultural patterns of representing or responding to disease, and the gender confusions that result when such patterns are disrupted.

Conceived as a cross-over between gender studies, science and literature studies, the history of medicine and biology and cultural studies, this collection sets out on a diachronic survey of gendered constructions of creativity, authority, and authorship, with a focus on British literatures and cultures but also including glimpses at German and French texts and works of art. The volume explores in how far creation and creativity were and are gender-specific concepts, in how far discussions about authorship utilized gender-specific role attributions, connected to the traditional dichotomies of culture-nature/male-female - and in how far literary texts and cultural artefacts subverted or supported this process of attribution. Congruences and divergences between biological and spiritual concepts of creativity, creation and procreation are at the centre of interest throughout. Individual chapters are concerned with medieval and early modern women writers, Enlightenment struggles over the concepts of spleen and creativity, the gender-theoretical implications of eighteenth-century poetry's metafictional contemplations of creation and/or nature, gendered concepts of authorship during Romanticism, nineteenth-century authors and constructions of masculinity, postmodern concepts of gender and creativity, and the link between double colonization and conceptions of female authorship in postcolonial literatures.

Subjektkonzepte des 19. Jahrhunderts geraten durch die Konfrontation zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Materialismus und bürgerlicher Leistungsethik in Aporien. Die vorliegende Studie vereint literatur-, kultur- und naturwissenschaftsgeschichtliche Perspektiven und demonstriert, daß sich die narrative Struktur des Bildungsromans und die ihr zugrunde liegende bürgerliche Ideologie der Selbstformung auch in naturwissenschaftlichen Schilderungen der Zeit wiederfinden, während umgekehrt der viktorianische Bildungsroman selbst durch naturwissenschaftliche Diskurse geprägt ist. Die physiologische Metaphorik des Bildungsprozesses - die Auffassung vom Menschen als formbarem 'Material' - kann von der Versöhnung des Individuums mit seiner Umwelt, aber auch von endgültiger Dissonanz erzählen. Behandelte Autor/innen sind neben deutschen und französischen Intertexten u. a.: Arnold, Bain, Carlyle, Carpenter, Darwin, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Huxley, James, Lankester, Lewes, Machen, Maudsley, Mill, Pater, Ruskin, Smiles, Spencer, Sully, Wells, Wilde.