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Publications: Prof Angus Nicholls

Nicholls A ( 2023 ) . Goethe's Discourses on World Literature . Goethe in Context , Editors: Lee, C , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
Nicholls A ( 2023 ) . The persistence of Geist in the Geisteswissenschaften . Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte vol. 97 , ( 1 ) 199 - 209 .
Schopf F, Nicholls A, Howe S ( 2022 ) . Civilized Competition: The Beginnings of the English Goethe Society and its Early Relations with the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar . Publications of the English Goethe Society vol. 91 , ( 1 ) 1 - 26 .
Nicholls A ( 2021 ) . Particularism versus Universalism in the History of Comparative Literature . Comparative Methods in Law, Humanities and Social Sciences , Editors: Adams, M, Van Hoecke, M , Elgar
Schopf F, Nicholls A ( 2020 ) . Zivilisierte Konkurrenz: Die Entstehung der English Goethe Society und ihr Verhältnis zur Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar . Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur vol. 45 , ( 2 )
Nicholls A ( 2020 ) . Daemonic . The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory / Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature , Editors: Frow, J ,
Nicholls A ( 2020 ) . Radical Germans and Their Anglophone Interpreters: Exploring and Translating ‘The Unconscious’ and Psychoanalysis . Transnational German Studies , Editors: Braun, R, Schofield, B , Liverpool University Press
Nicholls A ( 2020 ) . Stoicism and the Development of the Human Sciences: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Reception of Stoicism . German Stoicisms: From Hegel to Sloterdijk , Editors: Benjamin, A, Lampe, K , Bloomsbury ( London ),
Nicholls A ( 2020 ) . Theory of Myth Versus Meta-Theory of Myth: On the Political Implications of a Late Twentieth-Century Distinction . Explanation and Interpretation: Theorizing About Religion and Myth. Essays in Honour of Robert A. Segal , Editors: Ryba, T, Roubekas, N , Brill ( Leiden ),
Davis JR, Nicholls A ( 2019 ) . Friedrich Max Müller: The Career and Intellectual Trajectory of a German Philologist in Victorian Britain . Friedrich Max Müller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought , Taylor & Francis
NICHOLLS A ( 2019 ) . Rhetorische Naturalisierung in der Sprachwissenschaft: August Schleicher, Friedrich Max Müller und ihre Kritiker . Empirisierung des Transzendentalen. Erkenntnisbedingungen in Kunst und Wissenschaft 1850-1920 , Editors: Ajouri, P, Specht, B , Wallstein ( Göttingen ),
NICHOLLS A ( 2019 ) . Applied Blumenberg: Prefiguration and the Case of Brexit . Metaphorologie, Anthropologie, Phänomenologie. Neue Forschungen zum Nachlass Hans Blumenbergs , Editors: Fragio, A, Philippi, M, Velasco, J , Karl Alber ( Freiburg im Breisgau ),
Nicholls A ( 2019 ) . HANS BLUMENBERG, PHILOSOPHER IN GERMANY 1945-1966 . TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ( 6088 ) 40 - 41 .
Nicholls A ( 2019 ) . RIGORISM OF TRUTH "Moses the Egyptian" and other writings on Freud and Arendt . TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ( 6088 ) 40 - 41 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2018 ) . The ‘Goethean’ Discourses on Weltliteratur and the Origins of Comparative Literature: The Cases of Hugo Meltzl and Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett . Seminar - A Journal of Germanic Studies vol. 54 , ( 2 )
Blumenberg H ( 2018 ) . Prefigurazione. Quando il mito fa la storia . Editors: Nicholls, A, Heidenreich, F , Morcelliana ( Brescia ),
Nicholls A ( 2018 ) . The Laughter of the Thracian Woman: A Protohistory of Theory . MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW vol. 113 , 444 - 447 .
Nicholls A, Davis, John R ( 2017 ) . Friedrich Max Müller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought . Editors: NICHOLLS, A , Routledge
Nicholls A ( 2017 ) . Myth: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed., by Robert A. Segal, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 142 pp., US$11.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 1987 2470 4 . Religion vol. 48 , ( 2 ) 316 - 321 .
( 2017 ) . English Goethe Society . Publications of the English Goethe Society vol. 7 , ( 1 ) 272 - 288 .
Nicholls A ( 2017 ) . Goethe's Allegories of Identity . MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW vol. 112 , 1028 - 1031 .
Nicholls A ( 2017 ) . Melancholy and Passion: The Picturorial Space of the young Goethe . MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW vol. 112 , 1026 - 1028 .
NICHOLLS A, Davis, John R ( 2016 ) . Friedrich Max Müller: The Career and Intellectual Trajectory of a German Philologist in Victorian Britain . PEGS: Publications of the English Goethe Society
Callard F, Hayward R, Nicholls A ( 2016 ) . Editorial . History of the Human Sciences vol. 29 , ( 3 ) 3 - 7 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2016 ) . Hans Blumenberg on Political Myth: Recent Publications from the Nachlass . Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly vol. 65 , ( January 2016 )
NICHOLLS A ( 2016 ) . Goethe the Writer . The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism , Editors: Hamilton, P , Oxford University Press ( Oxford ),
Blumenberg H, Schlegel JL ( 2016 ) . Préfiguration Quand le mythe fait l'histoire . Editors: NICHOLLS, A, Heidenreich, F , Seuil
NICHOLLS A ( 2015 ) . 'How to do Nothing with Words': Hans Blumenberg's Reception of Plato's Protagoras . Prometheus gibt nicht auf: Antike Welt und modernes Leben in Hans Blumenbergs Philosophie , Editors: Möller, M , Fink
NICHOLLS A ( 2015 ) . Against Darwin: Teleology in German Philosophical Anthropology . Historical Teleologies in the Modern World , Editors: Trüper, H, Chakrabarty, D, Subrahmanyam, S , Bloomsbury
NICHOLLS A ( 2015 ) . Leichhardt and Voss Revisited . Patrick White: Beyond the Grave , Editors: Henderson, I, Lang, A , Anthem Press
Nicholls A ( 2015 ) . Max Müller and the Comparative Method . Comparative Critical Studies vol. 12 , ( 2 ) 213 - 234 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2015 ) . Myth and Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth . Routledge
Nicholls A, Heidenreich F ( 2014 ) . Mythos . Blumenberg Lesen: Ein Glossar , Editors: Buch, R, Weidner, D , Suhrkamp
NICHOLLS A ( 2014 ) . The Goethe Complex: Hans Blumenberg on Das Dämonische . Das Dämonische: Schicksale einer Kategorie der Zweideutigkeit , Editors: Friedrich, L, Geulen, E, Wetters, K , Wilhelm Fink ( Munich ),
Blumenberg H ( 2014 ) . Präfiguration: Arbeit am politischen Mythos . Editors: NICHOLLS, A, Heidenreich, F , Suhrkamp ( Berlin ),
Nicholls A, Liebscher M ( 2013 ) . Rethinking the Unconscious . Intellectual History Review vol. 23 , ( 2 ) 263 - 268 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2012 ) . 'The Core of this Dark Continent': Ludwig Leichhardt's Australian Explorations . Transnational Networks: German Migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914 , Brill
Nicholls A ( 2012 ) . After Jena: Goethe's 'Elective Affinities' and the End of the Old Regime . MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW vol. 107 , 304 - 306 .
Nicholls A ( 2011 ) . Between Natural and Human Science: Scientific Method in Goethe's 'Noten und Abhandlungen zum West-ostlichen Divan' . PUBL ENGL GOETHE SOC vol. 80 , ( 1 ) 1 - 18 .
Nicholls A ( 2011 ) . Scientific Literary Criticism in the Work of Matthew Arnold and William Dilthey . COMP CRIT STUD vol. 8 , ( 1 ) 7 - 31 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2011 ) . Scientific Literary Criticism in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey and Matthew Arnold . Comparative Critical Studies vol. 8 no. 1 , 7 - 31 .
Nicholls A ( 2010 ) . Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature . HIST HUM SCI vol. 23 , ( 5 ) 194 - 201 .
Görner R, Nicholls A ( 2010 ) . Zur Einführung . In the Embrace of the Swan , De Gruyter
NICHOLLS A ( 2010 ) . In the Embrace of the Swan: Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory . Editors: Nicholls, A, Goerner, R , Walter De Gruyter ( Berlin and New York ),
NICHOLLS A ( 2010 ) . Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought . Editors: Nicholls, A, Liebscher, M , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge UK ),
NICHOLLS A ( 2010 ) . “Introduction: Thinking the Unconscious.” . Thinking the Unconscious ,
NICHOLLS A ( 2010 ) . “The Scientific Unconscious: Goethe’s Post-Kantian Epistemology.” . Thinking the Unconscious , Editors: Nicholls, A, Liebscher, M , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge UK ),
Nicholls A ( 2010 ) . Literary Anthropology: The re-discovery of Humans . MOD LANG REV vol. 105 , 584 - 586 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2009 ) . "Goethe and Twentieth-Century Theory: An Introduction.” . The Goethe Yearbook (Special Section on Goethe and Twentieth Century Theory) , Editors: Nicholls, A, Purdy, D , vol. 16 , Camden House ( Rochester, NY ),
NICHOLLS A ( 2009 ) . ANGERMION: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers . Editors: Goerner, R, Nicholls, A, Kooy, M , De Gryter
NICHOLLS A ( 2009 ) . Goethe Yearbook, Special Section on Goethe and Twentieth Century Theory . Editors: Nicholls, A, Purdy, D , Camden House ( Rochester, NY ),
NICHOLLS A ( 2009 ) . “Das Spannungsverhältnis von Wissenschaft und Mythologie in Deutschland um 1800 und in Großbritannien um 1850-1900.” . Wissenschaftsgeschichte als Begriffsgeschichte. Terminologische Umbrüche im Entstehungsprozess der modernen Wissenschaften , Editors: Eggers, M, Rothe, M , Transcript Verlag ( Bielefeld, Germany ),
NICHOLLS A ( 2008 ) . ANGERMION: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers . Editors: Goerner, R, Nicholls, A, Kooy, M , Walter De Gruyter ( Berlin and New York ),
Nicholls A ( 2007 ) . Adorno: A biography . HIST HUM SCI vol. 20 , ( 4 ) 147 - 166 .
Nicholls A ( 2007 ) . Anglo-German mythologics: the Australian Aborigines and modern theories of myth in the work of Baldwin Spencer and Carl Strehlow . HIST HUM SCI vol. 20 , ( 1 ) 83 - 114 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2007 ) . “The Inadequacy of Life: Observations on Adorno.” . History of the Human Sciences vol. 20 , ( 4 ) 147 - 166 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2006 ) . Goethe’s Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients . Camden House ( Rochester, New York ),
Nicholls A ( 2006 ) . The subject-object of 'Wissenschaft': On Wilhelm Dilthey's 'Goethebilder' . COLLOQUIA GERMANICA vol. 39 , ( 1 ) 69 - 86 .
NICHOLLS A ( 2006 ) . “The Philosophical Concept of the Daemonic in Goethe’s Mächtiges Überraschen.” . Goethe Yearbook , vol. 14 , Camden House ( Rochester, NY ),
NICHOLLS A ( 2005 ) . The Hermeneutics of Scientific Language in Goethe's Critique of Newton . Sprachkunst vol. 36 , ( 2 ) 203 - 226 .
Nicholls A ( 2005 ) . Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German romantics to Hitler . AUST J POLIT SCI vol. 40 , ( 1 ) 167 - 168 .
Nicholls A ( 2005 ) . The romantic conception of life: Science and philosophy in the age of Goetbe . HIST HUM SCI vol. 18 , ( 1 ) 143 - 158 .
NICHOLLS A, Marching ST ( 2002 ) . “Australia’s Indonesia, Indonesia’s Australia.” . Antipodes vol. 18 , ( 1 )
NICHOLLS A ( 2002 ) . “Goethe, Romanticism and the Anglo-American Critical Tradition.” . Romanticism on the Net vol. 28 ,