Intermediality and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

Hans-Peter Wagner is professor emeritus of English and American literature at the Landau campus of Universität Koblenz-Landau. He taught at European, American, Asian and African universities and was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College and Universität Paris-Diderot. He is the editor of several English novels in the Penguin English Classics series and co-editor of TESBA (Teaching English Studies for the Bachelor’s Degree), TESMA (Teaching English Studies for the Master’s Degree) and LAPASEC (Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century) with WVT Trier. In his publications, he has covered colonial American culture, Enlightenment literature and art, postmodern American literature and, more recently, the graphic art of William Hogarth and intermediality. His most recent publications are A Survey of American Literature (TESBA vol. 2, 2017) and articles on Samuel Beckett’s usage of the art of Caspar David Friedrich in Waiting of Godot, and Herman Melville’s employment in Moby-Dick of paintings by J.L. David and William Turner.