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  19th Century Literature - English - Library - University of Canterbury
Contains a large number of critical excerpts ranging in date from the 19th century to modern scholarship.
Journals devoted to 19th Century literature and culture
Interactive list of all 19th century periodicals - literary and general interest.
library.canterbury.ac.nz /engl/nineteenth_lit.shtml   (785 words)

  
 French Literature - 19th Century
Poetry completely recovered its elan, while the novel, as the most suitable genre for registering the social upheavals brought first by the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and then by the expansion of capitalism and the industrial revolution, ultimately became the dominant mode of expression.
His 20-volume fictional examination of every level of social life during the Second Empire, Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), with its emphasis on the sordid and the depressing, remains the outstanding exemplar of NATURALISM whose influence as a movement it spanned.
Simultaneously, the philosopher and historian Hippolyte Taine, seeking a scientific explanation for historical and cultural phenomena, professed to discover in the interplay of physical and psychological factors the cause of national and individual variations.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Literature/DF_literature5.shtml   (1388 words)

  
 17th to 19th century New England, especially Cape Cod and the islands
Cape Cod sea-tale, perhaps true, of the dangers of fishing the Banks, and the discovery of cranberry farming.
Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901), author of several of these articles, was a significant 19th century author and social commentator.
A brief and anecdotal history of the 19th century era, circa 1800-1875, when packets were the major means of transportation between Cape Cod and Boston.
capecodhistory.us /19th/Mass1800s.htm   (2603 words)

  
 19th Century Russian Literature Homepage
This class will be utilizing the web both as a source of additional information on the authors and works we will be studying, and to extend classroom discussion by granting students the latitude to exchange ideas, information, and insights outside of the restrictions of our limited weekly class time.
These discussions, so far as they deal with topics of Russian literature, can be as free ranging and discursive as you see fit.
Students are encouraged to e-mail me directly with any questions they encounter about the class, the website, or Russian literature in general.
www.brandeis.edu /departments/ecs/recs130a/recs130a.html   (445 words)

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