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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russian Language and Literature
To profane literature belong the "Testament" Vladimir Monomachus, written in 1099, in which its author gives a recital of his enterprises; and the celebrated account of the battle of Igor ("Slovo" or "Polku Igorevie"), which was found in 1795 in the library of Count Musin Pushkin.
It is a book of a moral character, in which are propounded the rules for living according to the precepts of the Faith and Christian piety, the duties of man as a member of the family, and the way to govern the home well and to care for domestic economy.
Russian literature lost its ecclesiastical character and assumed a lay form; and in ecclesiastical literature itself there was effected a transformation towards the modern, due to the reforms of Peter the Great.
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 English Literature - MSN Encarta
The Victorian era, from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901, was an era of several unsettling social developments that forced writers more than ever before to take positions on the immediate issues animating the rest of society.
In addition, the unsettling of religious belief by new advances in science, particularly the theory of evolution and the historical study of the Bible, drew other writers away from the immemorial subjects of literature into considerations of problems of faith and truth.
The clarity and balance of Macaulay's style, which reflects his practical familiarity with parliamentary debate, stands in contrast to the sensitivity and beauty of the prose of John Henry Newman.
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 University of Pittsburgh
This course uses prose and aims to acquaint students with major genres and trends of Spanish literature from the 17th century to the present, equip them with essential techniques of literary criticism, and develop their ability to speak and write in the foreign language.
This course uses poetry and drama and aims to acquaint students with major genres and trends of Spanish literature from the 17th century to the present, equip them with essential techniques of literary criticism, and develop their ability to speak and write in the foreign language.
This course deals with contemporary literature from Spain and Latin America as a means of understanding not only recent literary developments but the cultures that produced them.
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 Nobel Prize in Literature 1902 - Presentation Speech
This definition sanctions the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to philosophers, writers on religious subjects, scientists, and historians, provided that their work is distinguished by artistic excellence of presentation as well as by the high value of its content.
The Liederbuch dreier Freunde [Songbook of Three Friends] of 1843 is witness that he might have become a servant of the Muses if, in his own words, circumstances had not brought it about that «what with folios and with prose/not every bud turned out a rose».
The medal of the Nobel Prize in Literature depicts a young man listening to the inspirations of the Muses.
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 TheCabinet.com - Horror in Literature
Literature Pick of the Week - 11/16/2006 - Offspring by Jack Ketchum I have to admit that I have a certain struggle with modern day horror literature.
Literature Pick of the Week - 11/08/2006 - The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe This little horror poem was originally published by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843, but Poe later brought it back a...From
Literature Pick of the Week - 10/30/2006 - The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce When I first heard that the first episode of Masters of Horror was going to be based on the Ambrose Bierce story...From
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 Outline of American Literature
The passion of Revolutionary literature is found in pamphlets, the most popular form of political literature of the day.
With them, American literature began to be read and appreciated in the United States and abroad.
Natty is the first famous frontiersman in American literature and the literary forerunner of countless cowboy and backwoods heroes.
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 Open Directory Project Search at DogBreedz.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Along with its sub-title "Weekly Journal of Politics, Commerce, Agriculture, Literature, Science and Religion for the Colony of New South Wales", this paper was renamed The Sentinel in 1845.
New South Wales Magazine (1843) - Page scans of 11 editions of this monthly publication which described itself as a "journal of general politics, literature, science, and the arts".
Port Phillip Magazine (1843) - Scans from all 192 pages of this short-lived monthly publication from edition 1 in January 1843 to edition 4 in April of the same year.
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 Digital Librarian: Literature
English Literature and Religion - Maintained by William S. Peterson, a Professor of English at the University of Maryland, the site consists of a Bibliographical Database, with over 7,000 records, including both primary and secondary sources — of religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
Studies in Canadian Literature (Études en littérature canadien) - "Biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian literature in English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton." The journal is searchable and provides full-text access to most issues beginning with Volume 1 (1976).
Texts include Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (c1877), edited by Maria Weston Chapman (Martineau was one of the foremost English intellectuals of her day), Edith Nesbit's The Railway Children (1906) chronicling the adventures of the six Bastable children, and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883), a tragic novel of feminist protest.
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 McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
Also discussed are related types of children’s literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today’s paperback books.
The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought.
Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel’s contribution to the genre of children’s literature.
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 Henry James - Biography and Works
Henry James was born on April 15, 1843 in New York City into a wealthy family.
At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading literature to studying law.
From an early age James had read the classics of English, American, French and German literature and Russian classics in translation.
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 Margaret Fuller
From 1840 to 1842, she served with Emerson as editor of The Dial a literary and philosophical journal for which she wrote many articles and reviews on art and literature.
In 1843, The Dial published her essay The Great Lawsuit.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, 1844 and 1856 editions.
www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller   (737 words)

  
 Johns Hopkins University Press | Books | Kiddie Lit
In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of "boys' books" while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers.
This egalitarian approach to children's literature changed with the emergence of literary studies as a scholarly discipline at the turn of the twentieth century.
In Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America—and its recent possible reintegration—both within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment.
www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/1843.html   (544 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - James Russell Lowell (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Educated at Harvard (B.A., 1838; LL.B., 1840), he abandoned law for literature.
In 1843 he started a literary magazine, the Pioneer, which failed after two issues.
The next year Lowell married Maria White, an ardent abolitionist and liberal, who encouraged him in his work.
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 Literature.org - The Online Literature Library
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D. December, 1843.
The Online Literature Library is sponsored by Knowledge Matters Ltd.
www.literature.org /authors/dickens-charles/christmas-carol   (92 words)

  
 1844 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about 1844
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 Antislavery Literature: Christmas, and Poems on Slavery for Christmas, 1843   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Thomas Hill (1818-1891) was born and educated in Brunswick, New Jersey.
He received a first degree from Harvard in 1843, graduated from Harvard divinity school in 1845, and assumed the pulpit of a Unitarian church in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The series includes Teaching Guides to the slave narratives of Jeffrey Brace and Boston King; the rhetoric of white abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright; and early African American antislavery sermons.
antislavery.eserver.org /poetry/hillchristmaspoems   (417 words)

  
 long_damrosch_britlit_2|Timelines|Victorian Timeline
Published in five volumes between 1843 and 1860, John Ruskin's Modern Painters championed the impressionism of Ruskin's favorite J. Turner over the realism of the Dutch masters.
Dodgson's stories refuse to teach either moral lessons or social etiquette and thus reject the didacticism of much Victorian children's literature.
Four novels and 56 stories later, Holmes and Watson had transcended their origins in popular literature and entered the realm of legend, where they have since taken on a life independent of their author.
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 Events - 1843
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1843 in sports List of state leaders in 1843
February 6 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
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 ipedia.com: 1843 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Years: 1840 1841 1842 - 1843 - 1844 1845 1846 Decades : 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s Centuries : 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1843 in art 1843 in literature 1843 in scie...
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Francis Scott Key, writer of the "Star Spangled Banner"
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 Amazon.ca: Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843: Books: John Franceschina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Consequently, theater historians have concentrated on the work of male playwrights.
A reason for this has been the lack of knowledge of a representative female canon, particularly of melodramas by women written before the Theater Regulation Act of 1843.
Subjects > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > General
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 Marxists Writers Archive
English philosopher and writer, won to Marxism in the 1930s and died fighting for the Republican cause in Spain in 1937.
Staunch advocate of Women's rights, wrote also on the history of religion, morals, literature, language, and comedy.
Led the split in the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1991 over strategy of guerilla warfare.
www.marxists.org /archive   (2320 words)

  
 SCORE History/Social Science: Browse Children's Literature K-6 by Title
SCORE History/Social Science: Browse Children's Literature K-6 by Title
Home / Children's Literature / K-6 / Browse by Titles / Beginning with L
A Project of the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools.
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 Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bibliomania brings you the internet's best collection of classic texts and study resources.
Bibliomania has created Literature Study Guides to more than 100 of the most studied texts.
These will help students to get top grades, and non-students to get more out a reading of the text or a visit to a play.
www.bibliomania.com /Fiction/dickens/Chuzzlewit/index.html   (205 words)

  
 Gathering the Jewels:: Arts and Culture :: Literature :: Dic Aberdaron (1780-1843)
Here you will find over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.
Topics > Arts and Culture > Literature > Dic Aberdaron (1780-1843)
A set of original drawings illustrating the life of Richard Robert Jones, 'Dic Aberdaron, by Ellis Owen Ellis, Bryn Coch, 1844, front cover [image 1 of 15]
www.tlysau.org.uk /en/subjects/4288   (124 words)

  
 Primary Sources topic page
Thomas Carlyle's attack on the Corn Laws (1843)
The condition of the labourers in Ireland (1845)
Thomas Carlyle on The Condition of England (1843)
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 Amazon.com: Tales and Sketches, vol. 2: 1843-1849: Books: Edgar Allen Poe,Thomas Ollive Mabbott,Eleanor D Kewer,Maureen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Subjects > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory > General
Subjects > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > United States > Classics > General
Subjects > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > United States > History & Criticism > General
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 Books - 1842 in literature
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 English Literature on the Web
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Introduction to Literature (John B. Padgett, Univ. of Mississippi)
"Contemporary Literature and Theory: Engineering the Self in the Late Twentieth Century" (John Unsworth, Virginia)
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 Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Author: Kyle, Elisabeth, 1901- Title: Song of the waterfall: the story of Edvard and Nina Grieg, by Elisabeth Kyle.
LC Call No.: ML3930.G8 D85 1970b Dewey No.: 780/.924 ISBN: 0237350963 Subjects: Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 -- Juvenile literature.
Series: Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 71 LC Call No.: DL30.N58 1997 Dewey No.: 948 20 ISBN: 0313299544 (alk.
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 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Henry ...
From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Henry James (1843-1916)
FRtR > Outlines > American Literature > The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Henry James (1843-1916)
His rigid, upright, morality is humanized and enlarged as he discovers a capacity to accept those who have sinned.
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