Until the Renaissance (14th century to 17th century) the main sources of children's literature in the Western world were the Bible and the Greek and Latin classics.
In England the earliest forms of oral literature, passed from generation to generation, were simple folktales, usually of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon origin.
Blake's ideas on the innocence of children and their corruption by adult standards of belief and behavior are also derived from a blend of German mysticism, English Protestantism, and the political ideas of the French Revolution.
Works of ancient literature, such as the stories by Greek poet Homer, are often adaptable to children's reading because of their simple narrative forms.
Fantasy continued to be a major mode of literature for children in the early 20th century.
Nicholas, founded in 1873, were significant in the development of children's literature, and they continued their influence into the early years of the 20th century.
A vocation of error: authorship as deviance in the 1799 'Prelude.' (by William Wordsworth)
Nudity a la grecque in 1799 could not be disengaged from the dramatic...
1796 1797 1798 - 1799 - 1800 1801 1802
hallencyclopedia.com /1799 (582 words)
HON H203 17518 American Social Protest Literature, 1799-Present(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
MW 9:30-10:45am Americans have protested aspects of their society which they have found disagreeable in a wide variety of ways throughout the nation’s history.
One such form has been literary and has come to be known as "social protest literature." Harriet Beecher Stowe’s _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ is a perfect example of a book that transcended its place in the literary world to help radically reconfigure the country’s political and social landscapes.
By looking at how authors have sought to influence a larger public through their literary works, this course will seek insights into how these literary works have functioned as a sometimes vibrant, sometimes ignored voice in the process of bringing about social change.
The end of that century was in Russia, as elsewhere, the Age of Sentimentalism.
Though the theme is treated with clear distaste, the details are so concrete that Lermontov must have personally witnessed the incidents he described.
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), only ten years younger than Pushkin, was one of the most harrowing cases of sexual self-repression to be found in the annals of literature.
The fundamental purposes of graduate work in English are to prepare majors for additional advanced work, to aid teachers in a better understanding of English and American literature, to offer minors for graduate students in other curricula, and to encourage independent research.
While primary emphasis is on American and British literature, all literatures in English are collected, including postcolonial and native American.
Materials are selected for purchase by the English language and literature bibliographer, with priority given to faculty requests.
Index of /etexts/literature/english/1700-1799(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
These directories contain public domain electronic texts (etexts) in the areas of American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Each item is saved alphabetically by file name in a directory representing the century it was written.
Only "classic" texts -- items that have stood the test of time -- are included here, and they have been used as the raw material for the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts.
Jewish History Resource Center - The Jew as the "Other" in Hungarian Literature, 1799-1847: An Anthology
The Jew as the "Other" in Hungarian Literature, 1799-1847: An Anthology
Kuntresim - Text and Studies 91, The Hebrew University - The Dinur Center, Jerusalem 2003
www.dinur.org /a433.html?rsID=284 (96 words)
Literature Descriptions(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
An inquiry into the basic nature of literature.
This course offers a survey of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the pre-Romantic period (approximately 800 to 1799), including representative works from the Old and Middle English periods, the Renaissance and the Elizabethans, the Cavalier, Metaphysical, and Puritan periods, the Restoration and the Neoclassical periods.
Students read and discuss the major authors of these periods, addressing relevant social, political, cultural, and religious issues.