Landmarks in European Literature / / Philip Gaskell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gaskell, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

This book introduces thirty-two key works of European literature in translation to ordinary readers. Ranging from Dante's Divine Comedy to Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Philip Gaskell takes a canon of recognised literary classics and introduces each work, setting it in the literary and histor...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I Dante and Petrarch
• II Villon, Ronsard, and Montaigne
• III Cervantes and Moliere
• IV Voltaire and Rousseau
• V Goethe and Schiller
• VI Pushkin and Lermontov
• VII Balzac and Flaubert
• VIII Baudelaire and Rimbaud
• IX Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky
• X Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hamsun
• XI Chekhov and Gorky
• XII Zola, Fontane, and Proust
• XIII Mann and Kafka
• XIV Pirandello and Brecht
• Appendix A: Translating Flaubert
• Appendix B: Quotations from original texts and selected translations
• Appendix C: The form and pronunciation of Russian names
• Appendix D: The value of money in the mid- to late-nineteenth century
• Copyright Acknowledgements
• Index