Books in the Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Regensburg Studies in British and American Languages and Cultures series

For many weeks, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 dominated the newspapers which covered the consequences with an unprecedented immediateness. This title looks at diverging representations of 9/11 in US and German newspapers (New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sueddeutsche Zeitung) and explores effects on its possible readerships.

Traces a development from pretences of realism to bold fantasies of fiction's socially transformative power, and eventually toward the collapse of the discourse of romance to which southern novelists had contributed with such desperate determination.

The First World War is a crucial yet divisive event in Irish history that has brought the complexity of Irish identity politics into sharp focus. This study shows how Irish drama and prose have responded to the war and its legacy, offering intriguing views on long marginalised Irish identities, revealing a modern nation grappling with its past.

Rooted in American Studies and the Medical Humanities, the study is situated at the interface of American medicine, literature, and visuality. As a literary history of yellow fever epidemics, it presents the ideological, socio-political, visual, and cultural processing of the disease from the late 18th until the end of the 19th century.

This volume provides a sociophonetic study of the urban accent of Aberdeen. It shows how dialect contact has led to adoption of innovative supraregional accent features and the marginalisation of traditional variants. It uses an innovative method to assess the importance of the individual speaker in innovating and conserving the local accent.