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  Learn more about List of years in literature in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
1951 in literature - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
1921 in literature - The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset
1810 in literature - The Houses of Osma and Almeria - Regina Maria Roche
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_years_in_literature.html   (2298 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: English Literature
It is not unlikely that the written literature may have begun as early as the sixth century, but at any rate, by the middle of the seventh century the traces of it are clear in the work of Cædmon, according to the testimony of Bede.
It is the custom of historians of literature to divide the literary life of Chaucer into a French, an Italian, and an English period, according as his work was influenced by the manner of each national literature.
After long years of repression they have their full freedom in the arena of literature, and there is more than a promise that when the history of the twentieth century comes to be written many Catholic names will be found in the highest places on the roll of honour.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05458a.htm   (11543 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 1753 - Calendar Encyclopedia
1750 1751 1752 - 1753 - 1754 1755 1756
1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January should be New Year's Day, following adoption of the Gregorian calendar in September 1752.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1753.htm   (365 words)

  
 ENG L297 1753 English Literature to 1600   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
This course will aim to refute the stereotypes of Medieval and Renaissance literature as "boring," "too difficult," and "irrelevant." Along with the literary qualities that have made them enduringly popular, early English texts powerfully engage with complex social issues that still confront us, albeit in different forms, today.
Students will be asked to focus on one of these topics for group work throughout the semester; small groups will also collaborate in leading a class discussion or performing a brief scene from a play.
Through a combination of class presentation, group work, class discussion, and lecture, our goal will be to interpret early English literature in light of both stylistic and historical concerns.
www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr98/eng/eng_l297_1753.html   (295 words)

  
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In 1753 he wrote another essay for the Academy of Dijon, on the "Origin of the Inequality of Man," full of still more startling paradoxes than his first, in which he attempted to show, with great felicity of language, the superiority of savage life over civilization.
This novel was the pioneer of the sentimental romances which rapidly followed in France and England and Germany,--worse than our sensational literature, since the author veiled his immoralities by painting the transports of passion under the guise of love, which ever has its seat in the affections and is sustained only by respect.
Walter was trained by his father to the law, and on leaving college he served the ordinary apprenticeship of five years in his father's office and attendance upon the law classes in the University; but the drudgery of the law was irksome to him.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/6/4/10648/10648.txt   (17791 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Norton Anthology of African American Literature edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
...In the diversity and even the self-contradiction of the writings that fill its many pages, the new Norton itself escapes the limits of the environment in which it was conceived, and honors an earlier and better idea of literature as a mirror of the mixed truths of lived human experience...
...Published African-American literature begins in Protestant poetry, spiritual autobiography, adventure stories, political writing, and the many popular forms of the late 18th and early 19th century...
...Invoking the language of folk sermons, songs, and tales, Gates defines American fl literature as a "talking book" or, alternatively, an "archive": an imagined institution in which the (adversarial) oral traditions of American fls have become, in effect, their version of a literary canon...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V105I6P70-1.htm   (1559 words)

  
 1765 in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
See also: 1764 in literature other events of 1765 1766 in literature list of years in literature.
This book by K.K. Dyson (a British scholar hailing from India, I understand) is an analysis of the attitudes, opinions and lifestyles of British men and women in India from the period of Clive's rule in India to just before the Mutiny.
This 3 CD set is a fantastic collection of his music that explains how he's managed to span those thirty years and continually be fresh and new.
www.freeglossary.com /1765_in_literature   (283 words)

  
 An African American Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
South Carolina passes law declaring all Negroes, mulattoes, mestizos, etc. and their offspring "to be and remain forever hereafter absolute slaves.
Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, wrote his autobiography, entitled Life, totally by himself and thus debunked the myth that Africans could not represent themselves in literature.
Phillis Wheatley, a former slave, is the first African American to publish a book; most noted for her poetry about being a Negro, a former slave, and a woman.
www.vsu.edu /print/1755.asp   (957 words)

  
 18th Century French Aesthetics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Another important cause of tension was the persistent use of mythological themes in art and literature, in a society still devoted to Christianity.
But after the so-called "Quarrel of Buffoons" where Rousseau took him to task (in his Letter about French Music of 1753, in favor of Italian opera), Rameau shut himself up in the certainty that music is the universal key for every subject, including even geometry.
The initial impulse is probably to be found in the excavations of Herculanum and Pompeii, reported by Cochin (1753), Winckelmann, or Caylus, and at about the same time the rediscovery of the ruins of Athens, and then Egypt.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/aesthetics-18th-french   (6942 words)

  
 Teacher's Guide: Afro-American Children's Literature and Resources
Major changes have occurred in African-American literature within the last 25 years.
Describes as "born in the dusty corner of an antique shop where the old photographs are kept," Myers has collected pictures of African-American children from around the turn of the century and written verses to express what he imagines them to be thinking and feeling.
Myers takes readers from 1753 to 1994, tracing six generations of the Lewis family, in this complex story of struggles and achievement.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Estates/4967/afroamer.html   (1622 words)

  
 African American Registry for Friday November 18th 2005
*This date celebrates the birth of Phyllis Wheatley in 1753.
Carrie Allen McCray, a source of southern literature.
*On this date in 1992, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Derek Walcott.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/category/8/literature   (1498 words)

  
 MavicaNET - Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Katalog / Kultura / Umění / Literatura / African Literatures / Senegal Literature / Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)
Voices From the Gaps is a World Wide Web project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America.
Not being of suitable age to be sold as a slave in the West Indies or the southern colonies, she was transported to Boston, where she was purchased in 176l by John Wheatley, a prominent tailor, as an attendant to his wife.
www.mavicanet.com /lite/ces/40016_1.html   (455 words)

  
 1998 IAPT Report Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
I have attempted to account for all names published from 1753 to 1998 at the ranks of division, subdivision, class, subclass, superorder, order and family.
Names at the ranks of suborder, subfamily, tribe and subtribe have been sought to date only in the literature published from 1753 until 1900, and not all of that.
A total of 6463 validly published and legitimate names are now available, arranged either by genera or by family.
www.life.umd.edu /emeritus/reveal/PBIO/fam/iapt98report.html   (1482 words)

  
 Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants
In it he described an American wildflower, traced its short path through the scientific literature, and concluded that, as a genus "distinct" from any other, it was in need of a new name.
The plant he had rescued from the wrong genus is what we know as twinleaf, a spring-blooming perennial of the woodlands of eastern North America.
It entered scientific literature in 1753, when Linnaeus assigned it to the genus Podophyllum in his Species Plantarum.
www.twinleaf.org /articles/jeffersonia.html   (2284 words)

  
 eFlora Help
The Hu Card Index was prepared in the early 1950s when the Arnold Arboretum undertook a project to prepare a flora of China.
Hu, working with a staff of four or five persons, searched all botanical literature (1753-1955) to locate all names that had ever been used for plants of China.
The index itself is housed in the Harvard University Herbaria building where it is available for use in person.
www.efloras.org /help_page.aspx   (842 words)

  
 The Curran Index to Wellesley Index Revisions
BentM 1661 Literature of the month, 25 (May 1849), 542-562.
BentM 1752 Literature: the press during the past year, 27 (Jan. 1850), 93-98.
BentM 1753 Literature of the month, 27 (Jan. 1850), 99-104.
victorianresearch.org /curranindex.html   (3217 words)

  
 PAL: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project
Or contrast Franklin's choice of focus in its four parts; consider the significance of his choice to address the book to his son; read closely the letters that begin "Part Two" and comment on their significance to The Autobiography as a whole; discuss Franklin's various practical attempts to alter his moral character.
Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 2: Colonial Period: 1700-1800 - Ben Franklin." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/franklin.html   (923 words)

  
 GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Welsh Literature - 18th Century Wales
They are all so well versed in the history of their descents, that you shall hear a poor woman derive her extraction from the first maid of honour to Nimrod's wife, or else she thinks she is a nobody ("A Collection of Welsh Travels and Memoirs of Wales" 1749)
In 1753 Thomas Richards in his "Thesaurus" wrote:
Yet our name hath not been quite blotted out from under Heaven.
www.britannia.com /wales/lit/lit12.html   (833 words)

  
 African American Literature Resources
African American Literature University of California at Santa Barbara: The Voice of the Shuttle
Literature in the American South From the Encyclopedia of Southern Literature (1989)
Documenting the History of African American Literature A Bibliography of book reviews and criticism provided by the University of Southern California
www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/afrolit.html   (1520 words)

  
 Plant Press Vol. 2, No. 2/Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Registration is a technique that aims to move the burden of identifying nomenclatural and taxonomic novelties from gleaners combing the literature, in hopes of stumbling on to the novelties, to the authors themselves who, theoretically, are interested in communicating their novelties, not just publishing them.
I am convinced that we will come to a time when we will recognize that the effective date of communication of new information is the date of receipt (as can be defined with a registration procedure) rather than the date of mailing.
I've been around too long and read too many papers by colleagues who said, "be patient, eventually all the name changes buried in post 1753 literature will be made and all will be stabilized." Once more, we looked back to the past at St. Louis.
www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/plantpress/vol2no3.htm   (7781 words)

  
 PAL: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Levernier, James A. "Phillis Wheatley and the New England Clergy." Early American Literature 26.1 (1991): 21-38.
Wheatley, known as the first fl woman poet in the United States, began writing poetry at the age of 14 under the tutelage of her owners, who broke with convention by educating her in literature, Latin and philosophy.
She was freed in 1773 and later married a failed fl businessman, dying destitute in 1784.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/wheatley.html   (3473 words)

  
 Ancient Coin Auction Catalogs: Contents
If no number of page plates is given, assume that the coins are illustrated throughout the text.
From this point all even-numbered catalogs are of ancients and all odd-numbered catalogs are of non-ancient coin, until number 84, which was literature.
Most have major pedigrees and the literature cited is extensive.
esty.ancients.info /catalogs   (14369 words)

  
 Biblio: Find Books in Nature > Fungi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
In addition, there are biographic notes, information on well-known metabolites and mycotoxins, and broad accounts of almost all pure and applied aspects of the subject (including citations of important literature).
All information has been updated as necessary since the publication of the eighth edition in 1995.
Poisoning by fungi - Genuine poisoning by fungi; False poisoning by fungi; Toxic heavy metals and other environmental poisons; Mycoses, mycotoxicoses; Spore allergies; Rules for collecting and preparing fungi; What to do - General treatment, Identification, Diagnosis; Chemistry of fungi; Selected literature.
www.biblio.com /catalogs/sub/940/Fungi.html   (2672 words)

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