Dr Barbara Burns
- Honorary Reader in German (School of Modern Languages & Cultures)
email:
Barbara.Burns@glasgow.ac.uk
R210 Level 2, German, Hetherington Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Research interests:
- German literature of the late 19th century (a range of writers including Theodor Storm, Louise von François, Bertha von Suttner, Detlev von Liliencron, Paul Heyse, Adolf Müllner, Wilhelm Meinhold and Gerhart Hauptmann)
- Contemporary Swiss women’s writing (in particular Eveline Hasler and Laure Wyss)
Publications
2019
Burns, B. (2019) François, Louise von (1817-1893). In: Labouvie, E. (ed.) Frauen in Sachsen-Anhalt 2. Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Lexikon vom 19. Jahrhundert bis 1945. Böhlau: Cologne, pp. 154-157. ISBN 9783412511456
von Suttner, B. and Holmes, T. (2019) Lay Down Your Arms. [Scholarly Editions]
2018
Burns, B. and Schonfield, E. (2018) Introduction: European dialogues. Oxford German Studies, 47(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1080/00787191.2018.1409502)
Burns, B. (2018) Waging war on war: Bertha von Suttner as writer and campaigner. In: Kramer, A. and Robertson, R. (eds.) Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German, 1889-1928: From Bertha von Suttner to Erich Maria Remarque. Iudicium: Munich, pp. 44-56. ISBN 9783862056224
2016
Meinhold, W. (2016) Wilhelm Meinhold, 'The Amber Witch'. Translated by Lady Duff Gordon, Edited by Barbara Burns. [Scholarly Editions]
2015
Burns, B. (2015) Life-writing on the edge of conformity: 'Mutters Geburtstag' by Laure Wyss. Orbis Litterarum, 70(4), pp. 328-343. (doi: 10.1111/oli.12072)
Burns, B. and Pender, M. (Eds.) (2015) Konstruktionen der Vergangenheit in der Deutschschweizer Literatur. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg. ISBN 9783826055294
Burns, B. (2015) Bertha von Suttner's 'Die Waffen nieder!': the roots and reception of a pacifist manifesto. In: Robertson, R. and White, M. (eds.) Fontane and Cultural Mediation: Translation and Reception in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Series: Germanic literatures (8). Legenda: Cambridge, pp. 158-169. ISBN 9781909662544
Burns, B. and Storm, T. (2015) Introduction. In: Theodor Storm: A Doppelgänger, with Aquis submersus. Angel Classics: London, pp. 11-17. ISBN 9780946162864
2013
Burns, B. (2013) Learning to be old: Laure Wyss's literary reflections on the challenge of ageing. In: Charnley, J. and Verdier, C. (eds.) As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ISBN 9781443842457
2012
Burns, B. (2012) Swimming against the Stream: Weggehen ehe das Meer zufriert by Laure Wyss. Modern Language Review, 107(3), pp. 857-871. (doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.107.3.0857)
2011
Burns, B. (2011) Truth, fiction and deception in Meinhold’s Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe. Neophilologus, 95(4), pp. 627-638. (doi: 10.1007/s11061-011-9261-5)
2010
Burns, B. and Charnley, J. (Eds.) (2010) Crossing Frontiers: Cultural Exchange and Conflict: Papers in Honour of Malcolm Pender. Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042029972
Burns, B. (2010) Negotiating the foreign: the nineteenth-century Swiss experience of the Americas in two novels by Eveline Hasler. In: Burns, B. and Charnley, J. (eds.) Crossing Frontiers: Cultural Exchange and Conflict. Papers in Honour of Malcolm Pender. Series: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi. ISBN 9789042029972
2009
Burns, B. (2009) The price of pioneering: power and paralysis in Eveline Hasler's novels "Die Wachsflügelfrau" and "Der Zeitreisende". Modern Language Review, 104(1), pp. 106-119.
2008
Burns, B.(Ed.) (2008) Phosphorus Hollunder und Der Posten der Frau von Louise von François. [Scholarly Editions]
Burns, B. (2008) The Mirage of the New World: Eveline Hasler's Ibicaba, das Paradies in den Köpfen. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 44(1), pp. 76-88. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqm121)
2006
Burns, B. (2006) The Prose Fiction of Louise von Francois (1817-1893). Series: Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 44. P. Lang. ISBN 9783039109241
2005
Burns, B. (2005) Adolf Mullners Der Kaliber: the first German detective story? German Life and Letters, 58(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1111/j.0016-8777.2005.00300.x)
Burns, B. (2005) German Literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 67, pp. 646-684.
2004
Burns, B. (2004) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 66, pp. 619-654.
2003
Burns, B. (2003) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 65, pp. 612-646.
2002
Burns, B. (2002) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 64, pp. 667-698.
Burns, B. (2002) Vorbestraft: differing perspectives on reintegration and recidivism in narratives by Storm and Fallada. Neophilologus, 86(3), pp. 437-453. (doi: 10.1023/A:1015662416357)
2001
Burns, B. (2001) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 63, pp. 696-732.
Burns, B. (2001) The influence of Ivan Turgenev's Sportsmans Sketches on the stories of Detlev von Liliencron. Orbis Litterarum, 56(2), pp. 106-120. (doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0730.2001.d01-37.x)
Burns, B. (2001) Morality and psychology in Louise von François crime story Judith, die Kluswirtin. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 37(1), pp. 58-69. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/37.1.58)
2000
Burns, B. (2000) Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber. In: Konzett, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of German Literature. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers: Chicago, USA, pp. 416-417. ISBN 9781579581381
Burns, B. (2000) Louise von Francois. In: Konzett, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of German Literature. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers: Chicago, USA, pp. 302-303. ISBN 9781579581381
1998
Burns, B. (1998) Heyse and Storm on the slippery slope: two differing approaches to euthanasia. German Life and Letters, 51(1), pp. 28-42. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0483.00083)
Burns, B. (1998) The Short Stories of Detlev Von Liliencron: Passion, Penury, Patriotism. Series: Studies in German language and literature (20). Mellen: Lewiston, NY. ISBN 9780773482586
1996
Burns, B. (1996) Theory and Patterns of Tragedy in the Later Novellen of Theodor Storm. Series: Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik (325). Hans-Dieter Heinz: Stuttgart. ISBN 3880993297
1995
Burns, B. (1995) Theodor Storm. In: Henderson, L. and Hall, S. M. (eds.) Reference Guide to World Literature, Vol. 2. St. James Press: London, pp. 1158-1160.
Articles
Burns, B. and Schonfield, E. (2018) Introduction: European dialogues. Oxford German Studies, 47(1), pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1080/00787191.2018.1409502)
Burns, B. (2015) Life-writing on the edge of conformity: 'Mutters Geburtstag' by Laure Wyss. Orbis Litterarum, 70(4), pp. 328-343. (doi: 10.1111/oli.12072)
Burns, B. (2012) Swimming against the Stream: Weggehen ehe das Meer zufriert by Laure Wyss. Modern Language Review, 107(3), pp. 857-871. (doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.107.3.0857)
Burns, B. (2011) Truth, fiction and deception in Meinhold’s Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe. Neophilologus, 95(4), pp. 627-638. (doi: 10.1007/s11061-011-9261-5)
Burns, B. (2009) The price of pioneering: power and paralysis in Eveline Hasler's novels "Die Wachsflügelfrau" and "Der Zeitreisende". Modern Language Review, 104(1), pp. 106-119.
Burns, B. (2008) The Mirage of the New World: Eveline Hasler's Ibicaba, das Paradies in den Köpfen. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 44(1), pp. 76-88. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqm121)
Burns, B. (2005) Adolf Mullners Der Kaliber: the first German detective story? German Life and Letters, 58(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1111/j.0016-8777.2005.00300.x)
Burns, B. (2005) German Literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 67, pp. 646-684.
Burns, B. (2004) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 66, pp. 619-654.
Burns, B. (2003) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 65, pp. 612-646.
Burns, B. (2002) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 64, pp. 667-698.
Burns, B. (2002) Vorbestraft: differing perspectives on reintegration and recidivism in narratives by Storm and Fallada. Neophilologus, 86(3), pp. 437-453. (doi: 10.1023/A:1015662416357)
Burns, B. (2001) German literature 1830-1880. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 63, pp. 696-732.
Burns, B. (2001) The influence of Ivan Turgenev's Sportsmans Sketches on the stories of Detlev von Liliencron. Orbis Litterarum, 56(2), pp. 106-120. (doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0730.2001.d01-37.x)
Burns, B. (2001) Morality and psychology in Louise von François crime story Judith, die Kluswirtin. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 37(1), pp. 58-69. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/37.1.58)
Burns, B. (1998) Heyse and Storm on the slippery slope: two differing approaches to euthanasia. German Life and Letters, 51(1), pp. 28-42. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0483.00083)
Books
Burns, B. (2006) The Prose Fiction of Louise von Francois (1817-1893). Series: Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 44. P. Lang. ISBN 9783039109241
Burns, B. (1998) The Short Stories of Detlev Von Liliencron: Passion, Penury, Patriotism. Series: Studies in German language and literature (20). Mellen: Lewiston, NY. ISBN 9780773482586
Burns, B. (1996) Theory and Patterns of Tragedy in the Later Novellen of Theodor Storm. Series: Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik (325). Hans-Dieter Heinz: Stuttgart. ISBN 3880993297
Book Sections
Burns, B. (2019) François, Louise von (1817-1893). In: Labouvie, E. (ed.) Frauen in Sachsen-Anhalt 2. Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Lexikon vom 19. Jahrhundert bis 1945. Böhlau: Cologne, pp. 154-157. ISBN 9783412511456
Burns, B. (2018) Waging war on war: Bertha von Suttner as writer and campaigner. In: Kramer, A. and Robertson, R. (eds.) Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German, 1889-1928: From Bertha von Suttner to Erich Maria Remarque. Iudicium: Munich, pp. 44-56. ISBN 9783862056224
Burns, B. (2015) Bertha von Suttner's 'Die Waffen nieder!': the roots and reception of a pacifist manifesto. In: Robertson, R. and White, M. (eds.) Fontane and Cultural Mediation: Translation and Reception in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Series: Germanic literatures (8). Legenda: Cambridge, pp. 158-169. ISBN 9781909662544
Burns, B. and Storm, T. (2015) Introduction. In: Theodor Storm: A Doppelgänger, with Aquis submersus. Angel Classics: London, pp. 11-17. ISBN 9780946162864
Burns, B. (2013) Learning to be old: Laure Wyss's literary reflections on the challenge of ageing. In: Charnley, J. and Verdier, C. (eds.) As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ISBN 9781443842457
Burns, B. (2010) Negotiating the foreign: the nineteenth-century Swiss experience of the Americas in two novels by Eveline Hasler. In: Burns, B. and Charnley, J. (eds.) Crossing Frontiers: Cultural Exchange and Conflict. Papers in Honour of Malcolm Pender. Series: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi. ISBN 9789042029972
Burns, B. (2000) Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber. In: Konzett, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of German Literature. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers: Chicago, USA, pp. 416-417. ISBN 9781579581381
Burns, B. (2000) Louise von Francois. In: Konzett, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of German Literature. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers: Chicago, USA, pp. 302-303. ISBN 9781579581381
Burns, B. (1995) Theodor Storm. In: Henderson, L. and Hall, S. M. (eds.) Reference Guide to World Literature, Vol. 2. St. James Press: London, pp. 1158-1160.
Edited Books
Burns, B. and Pender, M. (Eds.) (2015) Konstruktionen der Vergangenheit in der Deutschschweizer Literatur. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg. ISBN 9783826055294
Burns, B. and Charnley, J. (Eds.) (2010) Crossing Frontiers: Cultural Exchange and Conflict: Papers in Honour of Malcolm Pender. Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042029972
Scholarly Editions
von Suttner, B. and Holmes, T. (2019) Lay Down Your Arms. [Scholarly Editions]
Meinhold, W. (2016) Wilhelm Meinhold, 'The Amber Witch'. Translated by Lady Duff Gordon, Edited by Barbara Burns. [Scholarly Editions]
Burns, B.(Ed.) (2008) Phosphorus Hollunder und Der Posten der Frau von Louise von François. [Scholarly Editions]
Supervision
Areas of supervision:
- Any aspect of German literature between 1848 and 1900