Dr. Elystan Griffiths

Reader, Birmingham, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - Medienwissenschaft - German Studies (Fachgebiet) - Deutsche Literatur, 1750-1850; Deutscher Film. (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Birmingham - Dep. of German Studies, Centre for European Languages and Cultures, School of Humanities - Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT

Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete Deutsche Literatur, 1770-1815, bes. Kleist, Lenz, Sophie von La Roche; Gehorsam in der deutschen Geistesgeschichte

Monographien

Political Change and Human Emancipation in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005).
The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class: Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750- 1850. (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2020).

Aufsätze und Beiträge

Griffiths, E 2023, 'Filial dependence and autonomy in the Sturm und Drang: Reading Klinger, Wagner and Müller with Rousseau', German Life and Letters, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 21-42. https:/ / doi. org/ 10. 1111/ glal. 12370
Griffiths, E & Wagner, M 2021, 'The Drama of Obedience: Introduction', Oxford German Studies
Griffiths, E 2021, “Der große Schauspieler, Napoleon Buonaparte”: August von Kotzebue’s Antitheatrical Politics. in S Allan & J High (eds), Inspiration Bonaparte? : German Culture and Napoleonic Occupation. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Camden House
'Sophie von La Roches Zeitschrift Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter und der literarische Markt der 1780er Jahre im Lichte unveröffentlichter Briefe', German Life and Letters (2020)
(mit David Hill) 'Die Berkaer Schriften', in J Freytag, H-G Winter & I Stephan (eds), J. M. R. Lenz Handbuch. De Gruyter Reference, De Gruyter, pp. 257-267 (2017)
'Die Napoleonische Kolonialpolitik und die Zerstörung der Idylle: Kleists Die Verlobung in St. Domingo und Salomon Gessners "Inkel und Yariko"', in 'Ich will ein Bauer werden': Kleist in der Schweiz – Kleist und die Schweiz. Hrsg. Carsten Zelle and Anett Lütteken (Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2015)
'Sophie von La Roche, Shaftesbury and the Problem of Virtue: Inheritance and Self-Creation in Die Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 50 (2014), 82-96
'"Oft reiss' ich mich aus der Stadt los, und fliehe in einsame Gegenden": Social Criticism in Salomon Gessner’s Idylls', Publications of the English Goethe Society, 83 (2014), 22-36
"'Die unverhoffte Wirkung': Revolutionary Violence, "Beschränkung" and the Rewriting of the Domestic Idyll in Kleist's Works', German Life and Letters, 65/4 (2012), 399-420

'Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Women’s Education: The European Dimension of Sophie von La Roche’s Journal Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter (1783-84)'
(with Seán Allan), 'Introduction. Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity', German Life and Letters, 64/3 (2011), 421-36
‘Religion, Performance and Society in Heinrich von Kleist’s Stories’, German Life and Letters, 64/3 (2011), 421-36
'Gender, Laughter and the Desecration of Enlightenment: Kleist's Penthesilea as "Hundekomödie"', The Modern Language Review, 104 (2009), 453-71
‘Hermanns Schlachten: Gender, Culture and the German Nation in the Long Eighteenth Century’, German Life and Letters, 61 (2008), 118-36
'Action, Communication and the Problem of Form: J. M. R. Lenz’s Social and Political Thought', German Life and Letters, 59 (2006), 1-24
‘A Nation of Provincials? German Identity in Gustav Freytag’s novel-cycle Die Ahnen (1872-1880)’, Monatshefte, 96 (2004), 220-33
(with David Hill) ‘Drafting the Self: The Poet as Reformer and Performer in J.M.R. Lenz’s Berkaer Projekt’, in The Text and its Context: Studies in Modern German Literature and Society Presented to Ronald Speirs on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, ed. by Nigel Harris and Joanne Sayner (Oxford: Lang, 2008), pp. 79-94
‘Provincialism, Private Life and the Marginal Hero: Germany after Unification in the Works of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Spielhagen and Paul Heyse’, in Germany's Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses, ed. by Ronald Speirs and John Breuilly (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005), pp. 209-23
‘Unity, Division and the Problem of Representation: German Unification in the Novels of Friedrich Spielhagen’, in Field Studies: German Language, Media and Culture. Selected Papers from the Conference of University Teachers of German, University of Newcastle, September 2002, CUTG Proceedings, 5, ed. by Holger Briel and Carol Fehringer (Bern: Lang, 2005), pp. 103-23
‘Heinrich von Kleist: A Nationalist Cosmopolitan?’, in Cosmopolitans in the Modern World: Studies on a Theme in German and Austrian Literary Culture, ed. by Suzanne Kirkbright (Munich: Iudicium, 2000), pp. 41-52.

Herausgebertätigkeit

(mit Martin Wagner) The Drama of Obedience, Oxford German Studies, vol. 50, no. 3 (2021)
(mit Martin Wagner) Genres of Obedience, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 56 (2020)
Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Schriften zur Sozialreform: Das Berkaer Projekt, hrsg. Elystan Griffiths und David Hill (Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2007)
(Mhrsg.) Performance and Performativity in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist. Guest- edited Special Issue of German Life and Letters, 64/3 (2011).

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
#Kleist-Gesellschaft
Association for German Studies
#English Goethe Society

Stipendien British Academy 1998, 2003; DAAD 2011, 2020 (abgesagt); SSHRC 2019

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