{"title":"Barbara Burns","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"amber-witch-book-wilhelm-meinhold-9781781880951","title":"The Amber Witch","description":"Wilhelm Meinhold's Gothic romance Maria Schweidler: Die Bernsteinhexe (1844) was a seminal German text in the literary landscape of Victorian England. The 1846 English translation by Lady Duff Gordon, entitled The Amber Witch, enjoyed widespread popular success, and Meinhold's suspenseful tale of a guileless young woman, unjustly accused of witchcraft, was hailed as the leading German novel of its day. Written in the style of a seventeenth-century chronicle, the story appealed to a readership which identified in Meinhold's work echoes of Daniel Defoe, Oliver Goldsmith and Walter Scott. This volume makes available for the first time in a critical edition a literary translation which transformed the German text into a cult classic in English, and suggests ways in which this work resonated with trends in Victorian culture. Duff Gordon's accomplished rendering of what was perceived as an untranslatable text made Meinhold's novel accessible to new generations of readers. Affording an insight into the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and the superstition and miscarriages of justice which marked the peak of the witch-hunting period in Early Modern Europe, this translation should generate continuing momentum and impact for Meinhold's original German novel.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50989907116305,"sku":"NIN9781781880951","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51278341898513,"sku":"GOR014214973","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52593153278225,"sku":"NLS9781781880951","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1781880956.jpg?v=1751312258"},{"product_id":"lay-down-your-arms-book-bertha-von-suttner-9781781886243","title":"Lay Down Your Arms","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51050772201745,"sku":"NIN9781781886243","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52678676381969,"sku":"NLS9781781886243","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53663971574033,"sku":"GOR010198538","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1781886245.jpg?v=1750723421"},{"product_id":"phosphorus-hollunder-und-der-posten-der-frau-von-louise-von-francois-book-barbara-burns-9780947623753","title":"'Phosphorus Hollunder' Und 'Der Posten Der Frau' Von Louise Von Francois","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51097303286033,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51097308135697,"sku":"NIN9780947623753","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52402147492113,"sku":"NLS9780947623753","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0947623752.jpg?v=1750747836"},{"product_id":"turn-of-events-book-barbara-burns-9781434337009","title":"A Turn of Events","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51182298792209,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51182302396689,"sku":"NIN9781434337009","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52123375468817,"sku":"NLS9781434337009","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1434337006.jpg?v=1751147002"},{"product_id":"crossing-frontiers-book-barbara-burns-9789042029972","title":"Crossing Frontiers","description":"This volume brings together two very popular and active research fields: Swiss Studies and Intercultural Studies. It includes contributions on the movement of ideas, literatures, and individuals from one culture to another or one language to another, and the ways in which they have been either assimilated or questioned. All of the writers explore this general theme; some come from a literary angle, some look at linguistic inventiveness and translation, whilst others study the problems faced when crossing geographical and cultural borders or presenting ideas which do not 'travel' well. By emphasising the connections, borrowings and mutual influences between Switzerland and other countries such as Germany, Hungary, France, the UK, and the Americas, the articles reaffirm the importance for Switzerland of intellectual openness and cultural exchange.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52431962603793,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52431963128081,"sku":"NLS9789042029972","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789042029972.jpg?v=1768558434"},{"product_id":"prose-fiction-of-louise-von-francois-1817-1893-book-barbara-burns-9783039109241","title":"The Prose Fiction of Louise von Francois (1817-1893)","description":"Louise von Francois (1817-1893) was a German realist writer whose work appeared in several editions during her lifetime and was translated abroad. Her most famous novel, Die letzte Reckenburgerin, attracted significant critical attention from her contemporaries and was regarded as one of the most innovative novels of the century. Her other prose fiction, however, is less well known. In the context of the ongoing re-assessment of nineteenth-century women writers, this book evaluates the thematic preoccupations and narrative technique of Francois's creative work as a whole. Through a study of ten representative texts, most of which have not been subject to detailed literary analysis in the past, the author considers Francois's powerful portrayals of female self-reliance, and seeks to elucidate aspects of her most cherished convictions, which centred on values of honour and duty, and on a vision of a more equitable and decent society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52683246895377,"sku":"NLS9783039109241","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783039109241.jpg?v=1762320173"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-barbara-burns.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}