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      • Smith-Obolensky Media

        Smith-Obolensky Media is an international media boutique featuring the work by award-winning author Ivan Obolensky. His gothic mystery, Eye of the Moon, sold over ten thousand copies and the sequel is well underway for release next year. The Latin American Spanish literary translation has been accepted into the Librería Nacional chain, the largest in Colombia, for a thousand paperbacks to be sold in their stores (including those in three international airports).   We are magicmakers. How many of us have changed from a simple line we once read, or a film we saw at a crossroads moment? The art of storytelling, in all its facets, is something we celebrate.   In this spirit, we accept projects on a limited basis and focus on one author at a time, so we can fully present their works.

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        August 1983

        Wieland-Lesebuch

        by Christoph Martin Wieland, Heinrich Bock, Hildegard Bock

        Christoph Martin Wieland wurde am 5. September 1733 in Oberholzheim geboren. Nach dem Besuch des pietistischen Internats Kloster Berge bei Magdeburg begann er 1749 ein Philosophie-Studium in Erfurt. Ein Jahr später wechselte er zu einem Jura-Studium nach Tübingen. Ab 1752 arbeitete er als Hauslehrer in der Schweiz. Während seiner Professur an der Universität Erfurt von 1769 bis 1772 gründete er die Zeitschrift »Der Teutsche Merkur«, die eine herausragende Stellung im Geistesleben der Zeit einnahm und so zu Weimars Rolle als literarisches Zentrum beitrug. Er veröffentlichte im Merkur eine Vielzahl eigener Essays und Aufsätze, beschäftigte sich mit philosophischen, politischen, gesellschaftlichen und ästhetischen Fragen. Daneben schrieb er Romane, Satiren und Dramen und übersetzte Shakespeare ins Deutsche. Christoph Martin Wieland starb am 20. Januar 1813 in Weimar.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Victorian demons

        Medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle

        by Andrew Smith

        Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship. Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Dracula', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick ('The Elephant Man'), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.

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        Biography & True Stories
        September 2017

        Dearest Jean

        by Martin Smith

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        October 2023

        Märchen

        by Christoph Martin Wieland

        Wielands Märchen gehören zu den schönsten der deutschen Literatur und ziehen sich durch das gesamte Werk des Aufklärers: Er hat gesammelt, übersetzt, erfunden – und einen grenzüberschreitenden Kosmos geschaffen, in dem politische Klugheit und Fabulierlust zusammenfinden. Wieland entführt uns nach Arkadien und in den fernen Orient, wo wir Vögeln, Feen, Geistern, wundertätigen Zauberern und bösen Magiern begegnen. »Der Vogelsang«, »Pervonte«, »Dafnidion«, »Der eiserne Armleuchter«, »Der Greif vom Gebirge Kaf«, »DieRepublik des Diogenes« u.a. sind in diesem Band enthalten.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2018

        Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy

        by James Smith

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        Catholics and the law in Restoration Ireland

        by Paul Smith

        In 1660 Charles II was restored to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, but his hold on power was precarious. In particular, Ireland was fundamentally unstable - Catholics formed the majority of the population in a country where Protestantism was the established religion, a state of affairs unique in Europe. It was through the law that the restored Stuart monarchy governed its subjects and its colonial dependencies, and this book examines how Catholics engaged with and experienced English common law primarily through the eyes of Catholic clerics and Gaelic poets. It also examines how Catholics engaged with the Courts and the particular challenges they faced as lawyers. The book draws on an extensive body of primary source materials, including Irish-language poetry and little-used archival material relating to elite Catholic families.

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        Literature: history & criticism
        January 2013

        The ghost story 1840 –1920

        by Andrew Smith

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2018

        Gothic death 1740–1914

        by Andrew Smith

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2019

        Interventions

        by Andrew Smith, Anna Barton

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        Films, cinema
        November 2006

        Spanish visual culture

        by Paul Julian Smith

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        October 2023

        Märchen

        by Christoph Martin Wieland, Marcel Lepper, Hendrikje Schauer

        Wielands Märchen gehören zu den schönsten der deutschen Literatur und ziehen sich durch das gesamte Werk des Aufklärers: Er hat gesammelt, übersetzt, erfunden – und einen grenzüberschreitenden Kosmos geschaffen, in dem politische Klugheit und Fabulierlust zusammenfinden. Wieland entführt uns nach Arkadien und in den fernen Orient, wo wir Vögeln, Feen, Geistern, wundertätigen Zauberern und bösen Magiern begegnen. »Der Vogelsang«, »Pervonte«, »Dafnidion«, »Der eiserne Armleuchter«, »Der Greif vom Gebirge Kaf«, »DieRepublik des Diogenes« u.a. sind in diesem Band enthalten.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2021

        Spectral Dickens

        by Alexander Bove, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2023

        Leaving the field

        by Robin James Smith, Sara Delamont

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