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 1837 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
May 10 - Panic of 1837 (Global economic crisis): New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
You can find it there under the keyword 1837 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1837andaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1837   (783 words)

  
 Early Victorian Literature: Resources
Gray, Donald, and Tennyson, G.B. Victorian Literature: Poetry and Prose.
The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921: Ideology and Innovation.
The 19th-century volume of Baugh's history of English literature was used by thousands of students in preparing for comprehensive examinations.
www.uiowa.edu /~c008224a/biblio.html   (2618 words)

  
 Early Romantics, Course Goals
And yet poetry in particular and literature in general have been devalued as forms of knowledge because of the hegemony of science and technology.
Recently, the value of literature has come into question even within the discipline of English itself as an offshoot of debates on the canon.
Reading literature requires paying attention to why exactly each word is used as opposed to any other and to what the literary form of the text tells us, how it works to augment or qualify the text's explicit themes.
www.users.muohio.edu /mandellc/eng441b/goals.html   (1114 words)

  
 Children's Literature
Children's literature first clearly emerged as a distinct and independent form of literature in the second half of the 18th century, before which it had been at best only in an embryonic stage.
Latin American literature in general displays a special characteristic, part of its Iberian heritage: a partiality for linguistic decoration, which is unpalatable to the relatively straightforward taste of the young reader.
In effect, he unconsciously manufactured an adult literature for the young, loading the dice in favour of the values held by parents to be proper for children.
cyberspacei.com /jesusi/inlight/art/lit_7.htm   (14792 words)

  
 Early Victorian Literature
Queen Victoria came to the throne of England in 1837 at the age of 18.
Gradually, throughout her reign, books for children became more enjoyable and there were some masterpieces of children literature written during her reign.
Magazines were extremely important in children’s literature as well as all other literature.
sched.sbu.edu /faculty/pschafer/read510/early_victorian_literature.htm   (1823 words)

  
 Department of English - Salve Regina Univeristy
British literature from its inception in Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the medieval period will be studied in light of the historic, linguistic, and cultural forces that gave it shape.
Books of fiction and of poetry, the traditional literature of the fairy tale, fable, myth and legend, and materials in the nonfiction areas of science, biography, and history will be evaluated.
Reading and analysis of the literatures of different peoples and nations is a vital complement to the study of English literature.
www.salve.edu /departments/eng/courses.cfm   (1889 words)

  
 BA in English 2001-2003
Study in the Department of English leads to an understanding of the nature of English and American literature and of the English language, its aesthetic and functional properties, its uses, and the methods by which impressions and ideas are articulated and communicated from one person to another.
The BA in English emphasizes study of the nature of the English language, the English and American literary traditions, creative writing, and critical approaches to literature.
The department also offers a minor in English literature, a minor in Linguistics, a minor in Children's Literature, and, in cooperation with the Performing Arts Department, an interdisciplinary Speech and Theater minor.
www.csub.edu /english/BA_in_English_2001_2003.htx   (312 words)

  
 endo
Depending upon their other interests, writing students are also encouraged to take courses in which they read widely in literary history, including contemporary literature, and to study the literature of some language other than English.
GRE examinations in English literature typically ask some questions about classics of European literature, which the student is expected to be familiar with in translation.
Literary history: The broad historical periods covered by the department include early modern English literature; English and American literature of the 18th and 19th centuries; and 20th century literature in English.
www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/html/endo.html   (1241 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1837   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901)
June 20 - Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne
In the United States, financial crisis and economic depression begun by the Panic of 1837.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /1837   (746 words)

  
 1837
Years: 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842
May 10 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
June 20 - Queen Victoria,monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/18/1837.html   (254 words)

  
 Russian Literature - GE(General Erotic)
It is intended not only for scholars of Russian language and literature, but also for English-speakers studying Russian, as well as Russian-speakers studying English.
Are you aware of the most scandalous book in Russian literature - "Secret Journal 1836-1837" by A. Pushkin.
After fifteen years of ban and suppression, Secret Journal was finally published in Russia in 2001 by Moscow publishing house LADOMIR famous for its academic editions devoted to scientific studies on Russian erotic literature and folklore.
russianliterature.blogspot.com   (618 words)

  
 SCSU • School of Education
All students must take any one of the sophomore literature courses to be eligible for any advanced course in English or literature.
A major theme in world and/or British and/or American literature, such as the Hero, Romantic Love, Politics, will be explored through an examination of the texts of important authors.
Literature of the Renaissance in England, excluding Shakespeare.
www.southernct.edu /departments/soe/academics/engcourses.html   (1342 words)

  
 Victorian Literature 1830-1900 Bibliography
MHRA Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; The Year's Work in English Studies (English Association, London), a critical review; PMLA International Bibliography, annually.
Ryals, Clyde de L. A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature.
A History of Nineteenth Century Literature 1780-1900 (1901).
www.uiowa.edu /~c008188a/bibliolit.html   (2601 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Russian Literature
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.
www.glbtq.com /literature/russ_lit,3.html   (807 words)

  
 Victorian Literature (The Philosophy of Change)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
All this may seem rather remote from Victorian literature, but in fact it is, as the anecdote related by Professor Walker indicates, the very heart of the matter.
Yet it is a notorious, if paradoxical, fact that the effect of science on art and literature has been to reinforce a romantic impressionism, and that the man of scientific training when he turns to the humanities is almost always an impressionist.
I have been concerned here primarily with literature, but obviously the destiny of literature is bound up with that of the practical world.
www.nyx.net /~jkalb/more/victorian.html   (3865 words)

  
 The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Gates ISBN 0393040011   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Holloway said that she will begin teaching Duke students from the text next fall in her introduction to African-American literature classes, and Andrews said that he will start teaching UNC students from it this semester.
Andrews, an expert on African-American literature before 1920, was one of nine section or chapter editors.
For his chapter, ``The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865,'' Andrews was responsible for selecting, editing and writing the annotations and introductions for all of the works included.
www.cheapestbookprice.com /reviews/0393040011.html   (2021 words)

  
 Index of Forbidden Books
This at a time when all education, if any, was under clerical control: there was simply too little literature being produced and the people were too ignorant to write heresy.
That and the suppression of literature generally: except for the writers the Church ruined — Galileo, Giordano Bruno, Lucilio Vanini, et al.
Full title: The censorship of the church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature; a study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of censorship by the state.
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0126almanac.htm   (813 words)

  
 B.A. in English 2005-2007
ENGL 101 (Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts) or the equivalent
ENGL 360 (Modern English Literature: 1901-1945) or ENGL 361 (Contemporary English Literature: 1945 to the Present) or ENGL 382 (Major American Authors from 1901 to the Present)
American Literature: ENGL 380 (Major American Authors to the Civil War); ENGL 381 (Major American Authors from The Civil War to 1900); ENGL 382 (Major American Authors from 1901 to the Present); ENGL 385 (Literature of the American South); ENGL 386 (Literature of the American West); *ENGL 375 (Studies in a Major Author or Group)
www.csub.edu /english/BA_in_English_2005_2007.htx   (610 words)

  
 OUP: UK General Catalogue
This is a survey of British literature and culture in the first year of Queen Victoria's reign, 1837-1838.
Whilst covering a somewhat broader chronological expanse (1836-1838), the focus remains on the earliest year that can be called "Victorian", and on the connections between a wide variety of social and cultural phenomena at that time.
The discussion ranges among high and low art, literature, painting and architecture, science and technology, the popular press, and private memoirs.
www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780195049220   (231 words)

  
 Case Western Reserve University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Every student must take ENGL 300 (English Literature to 1800); either ENGL 302 (English Literature since 1800) or ENGL 308 (American Literature); and ENGL 380 (Senior Seminar), which is open only to seniors.
Approved electives in literary and cultural studies (24 hours); 6 of these hours must be in literature before the 19 th century, and 3 must be in theory or methods of analysis.
Students are strongly encouraged to begin their study with ENGL 300 (English Literature to 1800).
www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/major.htm   (1177 words)

  
 Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre - Cambridge University Press
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.
In this volume leading scholars of the period explore the ways in which the Romantics developed genre from a taxonomical given into a cultural category, so as to make it the scene of an ongoing struggle between fixed norms and new initiatives.
'A voice in the representation': John Thelwall and the enfranchisement of literature Judith Thompson; 7.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521581923&print=y   (423 words)

  
 University of Evansville : Title
WLIT 344 Masterpieces of Russian Literature (3) Explores the great works of 19th century Russian literature with focus on such writers as Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov.
Prerequisites: WC 203 and one literature course or permission of instructor.
WLIT 480 Literature and Its Relations (3) Relates a body of literature to theoretical and/or artistic works of kindred disciplines.
english.evansville.edu /CourseOfferings.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Antislavery Literature: Children's Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A juvenile antislavery and religious novel by an anonymous author, published by the American Sunday School Union in 1864 for use in Sunday schools.
Based on the life of Laura Bailey (1846?-1856), Little Laura, the Kentucky Abolitionist is a rare example of a funds appeal directed at children.
The Martyrs, and the Fugitive; or a Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son
antislavery.eserver.org /childrens   (350 words)

  
 Antislavery Literature: Digital Editions List
An updated checklist of digital editions produced by the Antislavery Literature Project.
William Miller, A Sermon on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1810 (religious literature)
This is a joint project of the Antislavery Literature Project, the ASU English Department, and the EServer at the ISU English Department.
antislavery.eserver.org /news/digital_editions.html   (938 words)

  
 Division of Language and Literature - Courses Offered
A study of the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, primarily as expressed in the literature and the visual arts of the period, with attention also given to ancient and modern interpretations of classical myths.
The course focuses on the role of literature in expressing aesthetic concerns, cultural tensions and literary representations of British interaction with Africa and Asia.
Studies of language or literature by and about women, roles of omen writers, sexism and heterosexism in language or literature, and cultural representations of women.
ll.truman.edu /courses.html   (13732 words)

  
 ENG L208 1837 Topics in English and American Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
ENG L208 1837 Topics in English and American Literature
8:00A-9:15A TR (30) 3 cr TOPIC: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITING=20 The primary work of this class will be the reading of literature written by African-Americans in the years since the Harlem Renaissance.
In other words we will try to develop a reading of the connection between the literary imagination and politics within the tradition of African-American writing.
www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blfal97/eng/eng_l208_1837.html   (66 words)

  
 FLP - Children's Literature Research Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Adults studying or developing children's literature will find The Children's Literature Research Collection to be an invaluable resource.
The collection houses more than 65,000 non-circulating books published from 1837 to the present.
We emphasize juvenile books associated with the Pennsylvania region; books about human sexuality; serial fiction; folk literature; toy and moveable books; and books written or illustrated outside the field of children's literature.
libwww.library.phila.gov /collections/collectionDetail.cfm?id=3   (114 words)

  
 Victorian Literature | Writings of the Period of Queen Victoria | British Texts | Questia.com Online Library
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www.questia.com /library/literature/literary-styles-and-movements/victorian-literature.jsp   (628 words)

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