18th Century

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Ellwood Wiggins
Associate Professor of German Studies
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Related Research

Ellwood Wiggins, "The Tragic Idealism of Double Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk and Friedrich Schiller's Naive and Sentimental Poetry," Monatshefte 115/3 (2023): 344-64.
Ellwood Wiggins, “The Latent Radicalism of Aristotle and J.M.R. Lenz,” German Life and Letters, 76.1 (2023): 150-172.
Ellwood Wiggins and Martin Wagner. “Radical and Moderate Sturm und Drang.” Introduction to Special Issue of German Life and Letters, 76.1 (2023): 1-20.
Richard O. Block, Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain. SUNY Series, Literature ... In Theory: SUNY PRESS, 2018.
Wiggins, Ellwood. "The Moral Aesthetic of the Scream: Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Hidden Structure of Lessing's Laokoon." Lessing Yearbook 51 (2024): 51-71.
Childs, Matthew. "Goethe's Faust and Sorge in the Age of Imperialism and Colonialism." Goethe Yearbook 31, edited by Sarah Vandegrifft Eldridge et al, Boydell & Brewer, 2024, pp. 151–58.
Ammerlahn, Hellmut. Imagination & Meisterschaft / Mastery. Neue und frühere Goethe-Studien plus Essays on Goethe written in English. KÖNIGSHAUSEN & NEUMANN. 2021.
Wiggins, Ellwood. "The Transatlantic Origins of Double Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois in Germany." Transatlantic Literary History (blog). WWU Münster. October 14, 2021. https://medium.com/transatlanticism-wwu/the-transatlantic-origins-of-double-consciousness-w-e-b-du-bois-in-germany-93ceb656c222
Ellwood Wiggins, Odysseys of Recognition: Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespere, Goethe, and Kleist (Bucknell UP: Lewisberg, PA, 2019),
Ellwood Wiggins, "The Myth of Tragedy: Fictions of Dialogue in Mendelssohn's Letters on the Sentiments and Shaftesbury's The Moralists," Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch, XLIII (2016): 35-54.