Professor Hilda M. Brown
Hilda M. Brown, B.Litt., M.A., D.Litt.
Professor of German, Supernumerary Fellow of St Hilda's College
Address: St Hilda's College, Oxford, OX4 1DY
Homepage: http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/~kneabz/hmb/
Email: hilda.brown@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 276884
Research
Professor Brown was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowship to undertake a project entitled 'The total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk): a 19th century quest'. Her research has for some years had a strong interdisciplinary bias. It involves studying connections between literature, drama, music, the visual arts, and the theory of landscape gardening, especially in works associated with German Romanticism and Richard Wagner.
Publications
'False climaxes and ripe moments: thematic and dramatic configurations of the theme of death in Kleist's works', in: A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist, ed. Bernd Fischer (Woodbridge: Camden House, 2003), 309-336
'Reading 'The drowned girl': a Brecht poem and its contexts', in: Empedocles' Shoe: Essays on Brecht's Poetry, ed. K.Leeder and T.Kuhn (London: Methuen, 2002), 72-88
'Goethe and the (English) landscape improvers - a theme in Die Wahlverwandtschaften', in: Goethe at 250, ed. T.J.Reed, M.Swales and J.Adler (London/Munich: Institute of Germanic Studies/iudicium, 2000)
'Germania and Italia: reflections on a theme in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann', Publications of the English Goethe Society, 70 (2000), 1-12
Heinrich von Kleist. The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)