Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
European literature of the 18th and early 19th centuries; literature and the human sciences (psychology and anthropology); melancholy; the classical tradition; Goethe
Research interests (short)
Melancholy; literature and psychology; Goethe; 18th-century European literature; the classical tradition
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Man and Other Plants: Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology from Werther to Die Wahlverwandtschaften, University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Jan 1991
Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Jan 1987
Keywords
- BF Psychology
- Melancholia
- History of Psychology
- PD Germanic languages
- German Literature 1700-1850
- Goethe
- PA Classical philology
- The Classical Tradition
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Legal Cultures in the Age of Goethe: An Introduction
Bell, M. & Vecchiato, D., 2022, In: Law and Literature. 34, 2, p. 165-170 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Embracing the enemy: The problem of religion in Goethe’s “Confessions of a Beautiful Soul”
Bell, M., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Anti/Idealism: Re-Interpreting a German Discourse. de GruyterResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Melancolia: La malattia dell’Occidente
Bell, M. & Oasi, O., 23 Feb 2017, Milan: edra. 201 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The economics of authorship in eighteenth-century Germany and Britain
Bell, M., Sept 2017, In: Publications of the English Goethe Society. 86, 3, p. 172-182Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction
Bell, M., 2016, The Essential Goethe. Bell, M. (ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. vii-xliiResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Projects
- 6 Finished
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The Philosophical Life of Plants
Bell, M. (Primary Investigator)
AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council
12/10/2020 → 11/05/2022
Project: Research
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Hedgehog Humanities: Cultures and Cultivations of Distance in the Long Twentieth Century (1876-2016)
Kolkenbrock, M. (Primary Investigator) & Bell, M. (Co-Investigator)
1/01/2020 → 31/12/2024
Project: Research
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Goethe’s intellectual development and the beginnings of European conservatism
Bell, M. (Primary Investigator)
1/09/2019 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research
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VehmeLit - Legal Cultures and Literary Trials in the Age of Goethe. The Vehmic Court Motif in Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspective
Bell, M. (Primary Investigator) & Vecchiato, D. (Co-Investigator)
1/01/2018 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research
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Religious melancholy: an interdisciplinary conference
Bell, M. (Primary Investigator)
19/05/2011 → 21/05/2011
Project: Research
Activities
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Self-love in German moral psychology after Rousseau: the case of Goethe
Bell, M. (Speaker)
12 Mar 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Society and the sources of legality in Goethe’s Die natürliche Tochter
Bell, M. (Speaker)
26 Nov 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Selbstliebe and Eigenliebe
Bell, M. (Invited speaker)
3 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Schiller's 'Ode to Joy' and the Enlightenment
Bell, M. (Interviewee)
6 May 2017Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Goethe and the German Enlightenment
Bell, M. (Invited speaker)
18 Apr 2017 → 19 Apr 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference