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Now available from Blackwell Publishers a new anthology of Eighteenth-Century British Literature.
DeMaria has responded to the broadening of the canon to include women and other excluded voices, and he has also preserved an excellent selection of the canonical masters.
This is a balanced and intelligent, a rigorously fair and scholarly anthology which deserves to become the standard text in the field as we enter the twenty-first century." Professor John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania.
faculty.vassar.edu /demaria/britlit.html   (121 words)

  
 Casting Characters
The history of juvenile literature is the story of a continual movement around these two purposes, with occasional periods of relative equilibrium between enjoyable and instructive fare.
Literature as a means to character building was a social and political imperative, and a hallmark of all extant Sumerian edubba tablets.
With the invention of moveable type and printing in the mid-fifteenth century, the access of all, including children, to literature, significantly increased, although published juvenile literature, as distinct from the general body of literature, did not exist as a separate entity before the second half of the eighteenth century.
www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1996/LB-N96-Dennis.html   (3742 words)

  
 Whittier College Department of English Language and Literature
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British literature to 1789, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British and American literature from 1789, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
A study of British literature and culture since 1950, and of the relationship between literature and national identity in the period.
www.whittier.edu /english/catalog/courses/courses.htm   (1768 words)

  
 Hamline University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A literature survey course in an earlier period (English 1210, 1230) and a later period (English 1220, 1240, 1250, or 1270)
The course emphasizes literature as a site of cultural production and initiates the student's sense of self as a literary critic by focusing on close reading of examples of four different genres.
The inclusion of adolescent literature, non-western literature, and popular culture in the curriculum.
www.hamline.edu /cla/registrar/bulletin/english.html   (2535 words)

  
 Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre - Cambridge University Press
Romanticism has often been associated with the mode of lyric, or otherwise confined within mainstream genres.
As a result, we have neglected the sheer diversity and generic hybridity of a literature that ranged from the Gothic novel to the national tale, from monthly periodicals to fictionalized autobiography.
‘A voice in the representation’: John Thelwall and the enfranchisement of literature Judith Thompson; 7.
www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521581923   (429 words)

  
 ENGLISH
ENGL 113 General Literature is a required course in the General Education program.
An introduction to the basic genres of literature-- poetry, drama, and fiction-- from the classical period to the present.
Themes and trends in children's literature; history, tradition, and current themes and trends in adolescent literature.
www.pittstate.edu /pubs/catalog01-03/engl.html   (2623 words)

  
 Heath Anthology of American LiteraturePhilip Freneau - Author Page
There he taught himself to be a poet, mastering the techniques of satire in the paper wars against the other club, the Cliosophical Society, and the devices of polite literature in verse prepared for the commencement exercises.
Of more lasting consequence were “The Power of Fancy,” a personal testament to his devotion to imagination, and his commencement poem, a collaboration with Brackenridge, A Poem on the Rising Glory of America, which explored the myth of the westward course of empire and arts from the Old World to the New.
Freneau graduated in 1771 when the American market for literature was so undeveloped that no one could make a living from writing.
college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/eighteenth/freneau_ph.html   (752 words)

  
 English Department, Pittsburg State University
At least one course must be taken in each of these three areas: British Literature before 1789, British Literature after 1789, and American Literature.
The courses may include seminars (two seminars are required for all emphases), but not directed study, research problem, thesis, or internship.
They must be primarily literature courses, but they may also include seminars (two seminars are required for all emphases), directed study, research problem, or thesis.
www.pittstate.edu /engl/ma.html   (323 words)

  
 Courses Offered in English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The course emphasizes literature as a site of cultural production and initiates the student's sense of self as a literary critic by focusing on close reading of texts in four or five different genres, developing a vocabulary for literary terminology, and practicing interpretive strategies.
Recent examples: American literature of landscape and nature; Walt Whitman and modern American poetry; beats, bop, and the status quo; comedy and postmodernism; Women's Bildungsroman and Kunstlerroman.
The inclusion of adolescent literature, non-Western literature, and popular culture within the curriculum.
www.hamline.edu /cla/wac/test/courses.html   (1563 words)

  
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EDITION 3rd ed., revised throughout and with additional chapters on the literature of the United States of America and the mid twentieth-century literature of the English-speaking world by R. Churchill.
TITLE English literature at the close of the middle ages / by E. Chambers.
TITLE English literature in the sixteenth century : excluding drama / by C. Lewis.
home.wlu.edu /~merrilly/english/W&L_Resources/histories.htm   (448 words)

  
 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Although we will focus primarily on literature proper--that is, on the poetry, plays, and novels of the period--we will also consider an assortment of traditionally "non-literary" texts.
Our purpose will be to trace the evolution of a changing literary marketplace and to understand better the forces that were at work to change the culture life of eighteenth-century Britain.
Students are required to prepare carefully each of the reading assignments and demonstrate that preparation in class discussion.
carbon.cudenver.edu /~bmudge/restoration.html   (493 words)

  
 Course Descriptions: French (FR)
Survey of French Literature—Overview of French literature and civilization from the seventeenth century to the present..
French Literature since 1940—Cultural trends and literary movements from World War II to the present, including existentialism and the nouveau roman.
French Civilization after 1789— Historical and cultural development of France from the French Revolution to the present, including the student revolts of May 1968.
main.uab.edu /show.asp?durki=38994   (463 words)

  
 1789 article - 1789 1786 1787 1788 1790 1791 1792 Decades 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
1786 1787 1788 - 1789 - 1790 1791 1792
May 25 - Anders Dahl, botanist for whom the dahlia is named
1789 article - 1789 definition - what means 1789
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/1789   (614 words)

  
 UCSB Department of English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990, and his central interests include American literature; literary theory; and theories of genders and sexualities.
Literature in English Outside England and the United States : South African Literature
Literature in English Outside England and the United States : South African Anglophone Fiction, 1948 to the Present
www.english.ucsb.edu /dept/people-detail.asp?PersonID=30   (255 words)

  
 Libraries | Arts and Humanities Library
Evaluative, annotated bibliography of important reference books and periodicals on American and English literature, of sources for research in other national literatures, and of more than 300 reference books in related subjects.
Literature of each language divided chronologically into periods, then listed alphabetically by author.
Brief articles treat all aspects of French language literature; longer articles treat major authors and include chronologies of life and works, and synopses of major writings.
www.libraries.psu.edu /artshumanities/complit/complitbib.html   (2430 words)

  
 Powell's Books - British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Read by Robert Demaria
Complementing DeMaria's British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (see page 27), this critical reader contains 17 essays by 16 contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology.
All the essays were published within the last ten years, and represent current thinking about the literature in this chronological span.
Other essays throw light on such topics as the history of readers and authors; social definitions of sexuality; religious thought; nationhood; and the relations between public politics and the private.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0631197419   (165 words)

  
 French Language Literature Guide to Research - Georgetown University Library
Ref. Z 2171.C3 Each volume covers a particular period of French literature and was compiled and critically annotated by specialists in the field.
An extensive bibliography of reference sources related to French literature, including bibliographies on individual authors.
The database consists of nearly 2000 texts written between the 13th and 20th centuries, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
www.library.georgetown.edu /guides/french   (991 words)

  
 VoS - Voice of the Shuttle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Literature, Cognition and the Brain ("research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience"; page includes "abstracts, reviews, accounts of work forthcoming or in progress, links to related web sites, and a regularly updated bibliography&
John Frow (U. Queensland), "Literature, Culture, Mirrors" (critique of both During's theses and Anderson's response; "The opposition set up here between cultural and literary studies is a phoney one.
The Literature of Work ("traces the development of the modern concepts of 'work' and 'working people' . . .
vos.ucsb.edu /browse.asp?id=3   (3333 words)

  
 Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A desk-book of twenty-five thousand words, frequently mispronounced :embracing English words, foreign terms, Bible names, personal names, geographical names, and proper names of all kinds current in literature, science and arts, that are of difficult pronunciation, carefully pronounced, annotated, and concisely defined and indicating the preference of the leading dictionaries from 1732 to 1929.
Dictionary of organic compounds :the constitution and physical and chemical properties of the principal carbon compounds and their derivatives, together with the relevant literature references.
Annals of English literature, 1475-1950 :the principal publications of each year, together with an alphabetical index of authors with their works.
rizal.lib.admu.edu.ph /Web_ref/html/lit.htm   (2923 words)

  
 Department of English and Creative Writing - Faculty
Assistant Professor Drew Hubbell is an expert on Nineteenth Century British literature and culture.
She teaches courses on issues of race, gender, sexuality and immigration in 20th-century American, 17th-century British and American, and ethnic literatures.
The department's expert on American literature before the 20th century, she teaches courses in American and ethnic literatures.
www.susqu.edu /english/faculty.htm   (398 words)

  
 ENL 3230 Spring 2004 Syllabus
Based in Enlightenment ideas, the literature of this course explores large questions, like "what is truth?" "what is virtue?" and "what is order?" From kings to milkmaids, God to slaves, the literature reflects and participates in the changing dynamics of emerging modernity.
With a self-consciousness that anticipates the post-modern aesthetic, Restoration and eighteenth-century authors are also interested in what makes good literature, a question that likewise concerns us as students of literature.
Students should be prepared for extensive use of computers; I recommend that students new to the internet visit the library for instruction and to acquire their free computer accounts.
chuma.cas.usf.edu /~runge/3230_Syl.html   (714 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
'This well-written book is an important contribution to studies of romantic-period literature for an unusual combination of reasons.
The Romantic Reformation takes for its topics two that have been widely believed to be important as long as there have been studies of romantic-period literature: the writers' treatments of religion, and the question of the writers' religious beliefs...
The Romantic Reformation displays throughout an integrity of scholarly purpose and a profound respect for its subject matter, voicing honest doubt, for example, rather than histrionics or dogma.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521570085   (399 words)

  
 Literature & Fiction >> World Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 (Longman Literature in English Series)
Twilight of Dawn: Studies in English Literature in Transition
Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of Gothic Discourse (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
www.onread.com /literature-fiction/world-literature/8   (212 words)

  
 Paper Five: English Literature, 1642-1740
Steven Zwicker (Cambridge, 1998) is another up-to-date introduction to the critical literature on the period.
This agenda is not quite ‘New Historicist’ — but it is generally concerned with how the work of writers was shaped by political culture, and with how that political culture can therefore be understood through literary texts.
W.A. Speck, Society and Literature in England, 1700-1760 (Macmillan, 1983).
users.ox.ac.uk /~bras0512/RLGeneral.html   (2160 words)

  
 English 210
Covering 1000 years of literature produced in Great Britain, this is a whirlwind tour of British literary history.
The emergence of new texts and new ways of reading the old ones has produced more and more material to visit on this entirely too quick trip.
We will focus on broad patterns of development, such as the changing conceptions of what literature is, what an author is and does, what purpose literature plays in society, and who reads or hears it.
faculty.roosevelt.edu /Buccola/210syl.htm   (236 words)

  
 British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
English literature; Early modern, 1500-1700; History and criticism.
All the essays were first published within the last ten years, and they represent current thinking about the literature in this chronological span.
The Reader will help students and teachers of the period find new approaches to central canonical works, but it also provides introductions to several of the less well known writers included in DeMaria's anthology.
isbn.nu /0631197419   (508 words)

  
 ENG 209: British Literature Survey 1789 - present   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Rental Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th ed., v.2.
There is no purchase text for this course, but buy the rental text.
Be aware, however, that Lovejoy won't have all of the materials identified during your search; be prepared to begin searching well before you begin writing your papers-this will allow you to use interlibrary loan or locate alternate material-or to pay a visit to the libraries at Wash U or UMSL or SLU.
www.siue.edu /~jvoller/Courses/209/209_syll_pf.html   (1972 words)

  
 UCSB Department of English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : The English 1790's
British Literature from 1789 to 1900 : The Victorian Age
www.english.ucsb.edu /people-detail.asp?PersonID=8   (399 words)

  
 Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature 1789-1837 by Alan Bewell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The essays collected in Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre are a welcome sign of a renewed interest in the complex interaction of literature, history, and ideology during the Romantic period.
This superb collection of essays significantly advances both the theory and practice of genre criticism.
In `The Failures of Romanticism,' Jerome McGann explores the gendering of loss during the Romantic period, and the important place of women's sentimental writing in a poetry of disillusion and despair.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/691/romanticism82.html   (647 words)

  
 Island Ireland: Irish Literature
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures was founded in 1969 to promote the teaching and study of Irish literature in third-level education throughout the world, and to facilitate contact between scholars researching Irish literature.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Yeats in 1923, Shaw in 1925, Beckett in 1969 and Heaney in 1995.
The intriguing Findagrave.com is a collection of photos of the graves of all sorts of famous individuals...
www.islandireland.com /Pages/lit.html   (1946 words)

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