The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century: More than a Bestseller. Edited by Daniela Richter. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016. 276 pages. £52.99.

Monatshefte ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-478
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Sammons
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

scholarly journals Rózsa Ignácz’s Torockói gyász [‘Torockó Mourning’]: Identity Beyond the Borders of Time and Space

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Zoltán Abádi-Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Narrative Techniques

Rózsa Ignácz’s historical novel Torockói gyász [‘Torockó Mourning’] (1958) deals with the staggering tragedy of Transylvanian Torockó in 1702. But the referential pattern that emerges from the dramatic plot clearly points beyond eighteenth-century time and space in partly overt and mostly covert ways: to the early twentieth-century post-Trianon fate of the Hungarians in Transylvania, and beyond, to the destructive post-1945 totalitarian communist regime in Hungary, as well as to the backlash of the 1956 anticommunist and anti-Soviet revolution and war of independence. The narrative techniques of expanding early eighteenth-century time and space will be examined through the ways in which thematic threads of collective identity are woven in the novel in general, and the customs, habits, and the religious affiliation of the community are handled in particular. Theories of Jan Assmann, Michael Bamberg, David Herman, Erving Goffman, Fritz Heider and Anselm L. Strauss as well as observations of Ignácz researchers such as Lajos Kántor, Gabriella F. Komáromi, and Erzsébet Dani will be used.

Roman Garrisons in the North of Britain

1932 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Eric Birley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The North ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Hadrian's Wall ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Since the antiquaries of the eighteenth century—Hunter, Gordon, and Horsley—identified the forts on Hadrian's Wall with the stations per lineam valli by means of inscriptions found in them, further epigraphic material has accumulated, as a result of which all the forts except those at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Rudchester, as far west as Birdoswald, have produced evidence of the regiments assigned by the Notitia Dignitatum to the stations Segedunum-(C)amboglanna. But, in a number of instances, there have also come to light inscriptions set up by regiments that do not occur in the Notitia, or that are placed elsewhere in that list; the purpose of the present paper is to consider the significance of these inscriptions.

Yomihon: The Appearance of the Historical Novel in Late Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century Japan

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Zolbrod
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Tokugawa Period ◽  
The City

When students of Japanese literary history view the latter part of the Tokugawa period, two developments stand out. First, Edo replaced Kyoto and Osaka as the center of cultural activity. Second, a baffling variety of forms of prose fiction arose. The former stemmed largely from the policies of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shogun. Although his suppression of “pernicious literature” had a baneful effect on publishing in Kyoto and Osaka, it indirectly improved the competitive position of Edo booksellers. During Yoshimune's reign, also, the city of Edo underwent enormous population growth. Many hatamoto and samurai were forced to resettle in Edo, where they lived on rice stipends rather than on the direct produce of their land. Bureaucracy expanded. Samurai turned from the rigors of rural life to polite urban pursuits. Need for additional services led to a growth in the number of merchants. Likewise, Yoshimune's personal interest in mathematics, science, and even Western learning resulted in the import of books and ideas from the outside world, particularly China. Proscriptions against foreign learning became less rigid.

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