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Maximiliaan van Woudenberg

College Professor of English and Communications
SIT (Sheridan Institute of Technology)

Maximiliaan van Woudenberg is a College Professor of English and Communications in the Faculty of Humanities at SIT (Sheridan Institute of Technology). His research interests include Romantic and Victorian literature, book history, and print and digital culture.

Subjects: History, Literature, Media and Cultural Studies

Biography

Maximilaan van Woudenberg is a College Professor of English and Communications in the Faculty of Humanities at SIT (Sheridan Institute of Technology) in Canada. He has published on book history, print and material culture, digital humanities, and such Romantic figures as Austen, Byron, Coleridge, and Mary Shelley. Along with Dr. Anthony Mandal, he is an editor of the online journal Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840. His monograph on Coleridge’s activities at the University of Göttingen is published by Routledge.

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Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840

Books

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Articles

Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Death’s Jest-Book

Published: Jul 09, 2017 by Handbook of British Romanticism
Authors: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Subjects: Literature

A look at Thomas Lovell Beddoes's masterpiece, Death's Jest-Book.

The Göttingen Library Borrowings of English Matriculants, 1798–1801

Published: Sep 20, 2016 by The Library
Authors: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Subjects: History, Literature

This article presents an account of the Göttingen library in 1799 and investigates the borrowing habits and reading history of this group of English students. The appendix lists 195 entries reconstructing the individual books borrowed by the English circle providing insight into the intellectual pursuits of Englishmen studying in Germany.

The University of Göttingen and Anglo-German Interchange

Published: Jul 14, 2015 by Romanticism and Knowledge
Authors: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Subjects: History, Literature

This article looks at the University of Göttingen as a site of intellectual exchange in the eighteenth century.

The Variants and Transformations of Fantasmagoriana: Tracing a Travelling Text

Published: Oct 14, 2014 by Romanticism
Authors: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Subjects: Literature

This article examines the German ghost stories that inspired Mary Shelley to write her masterpiece, Frankenstein.

Coleridge and Kurrentschrift

Published: Jan 20, 2014 by Notes and Queries
Authors: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Subjects: Literature

Coleridge and Kurrentschrift

Coleridge's Copy of Gespensterbuch

Published: Nov 20, 2013 by ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews
Authors: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Subjects: Literature

Coleridge's owned a copy of Gespensterbuch, the collection of German ghost stories that in its French translation as Fantasmagoriana would inspire the writing of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This article examines some details about Coleridge's copy of this interesting book.

Where Did Coleridge Live in Göttingen?

Published: Mar 18, 2013 by ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews
Authors: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
Subjects: Literature

While studying at Göttingen, Coleridge moved several times. Interestingly, Coleridge never lived in the house marked today with a plaque in commemoration of his stay at the university. This articles examines where Coleridge lived in Göttingen during his German tour in 1799.