Dr. Wolfram Benda

Research Interests

Lord Shaftesbury, German Baroque Literature, English Philosophy (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century), Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Novels, book heraldry, film studies, Ars Phantastica, Caspar Walter Rauh

Selected Publications

• Editor of the Shaftesbury Standard Edition (since 1979): Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Standard Edition. Complete Works, Correspondence and Posthumous Writings. Edited with German Translations and a Commentary by Wolfram Benda, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Patrick Müller, and Friedrich A. Uehlein. Advising Co-Editors: Rudolf Freiburg, Karl-Josef Höltgen, and Erwin Wolff. Stuttgart/Bad Canstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981-2017.

• Editor (with Monika Schmitz-Emans): Jean Paul und die Bilder. Bildkünstlerische Auseinandersetzungen mit seinem Werk: 1783 – 2013. Würzburg 2013.

• Editor: Traumbilder – Bilderträume. Alfred Kubin. Caspar Walter Rauh. Stephan Klenner-Otto. Drei Generationen phantastischer Kunst. Hannover 2009.

• Editor (selection): Jean Paul, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ernst Jünger, Friedrich Georg Jünger, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Wolf von Niebelschütz, H. C. Artmann, Christoph Martin Wieland – Alfred de Musset, Omar Chajjam, Salvator Rosa, Günter Eich (Chinese Poems).

Translations

• English (selection): Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince; Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; ibid. Markheim; William Beckford, Vathek; ibid. Venice; Edgar Allan Poe, Shadow; Sir Thomas Browne, On Dreams; Joseph Conrad, Youth.

• Texts by Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas de Quincey, John Keats, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, William Beckford, Joseph Conrad – Hugh Ludlow, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft.

• French (selection): Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef d´Oeuvre Inconnu; LaRochefoucauld, Maximes; Gustave Flaubert, Bibliomanie; Gérard de Nerval, Constantinople.

• Texts by Paul Valéry, Charles Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Carlo Goldoni, Marcel Schwob, Jean de Lafontaine.