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Peer reviewedBabcock, Suzanne – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Provides an eight-day sequence of assignments to introduce the idea of the speaker or "persona" to a high school English class beginning study of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Cites works by Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, and William Blake. (HTH)
Descriptors: Characterization, Classroom Techniques, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction
Kenny, Shirley Strum – ADE Bulletin, 1980
Presents a method of teaching Restoration and eighteenth-century drama in which a context shaped by student characteristics and needs is built for the study of the plays and in which a single specific problem is addressed in each text to develop an understanding of the drama and the period. (DF)
Descriptors: College English, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction
Download full textDonato, Clorinda; And Others – 1992
This resource book provides 26 learning activities with background materials for teaching about the Enlightenment. Topics include: (1) "What Was the Enlightenment?"; (2) "An Introduction to the Philosophes"; (3) "Was the Enlightenment a Revolt Against Rationalism?"; (4) "Were the Philosophes Democrats? A…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, European History, Foreign Countries, French Literature
Bidault, Frederique; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1986
Texts from a variety of genres (letter, narrative, biography, film scenario, and dialogue) and a variety of French authors of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are provided as examples of discourse with the common theme of passion and as sources for the study of the semiotics of passion. (MSE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Eighteenth Century Literature, French, French Literature
Kashuba, Irma Mercedes – 1985
Although it is rare to see French literature in the French civilization syllabus, it is relatively easy to incorporate short stories into the course which allow for quick reading and discussion. It is best to choose the best writers, who communicate the spirit of the time in which they wrote, from the point of view of the artist rather than the…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Eighteenth Century Literature, French, French Literature
Sianjina, Mary F. – 1994
For several years, one educator has taught Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" to eighth and ninth graders. She recently discovered a woman writer of the 18th century whose novel could be taught using the same format used to teach Dickens's novel. Fanny Burney's "Evelina" is an exceptional book, effective not only for teaching the epistolary…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature
Schatzberg, Walter, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This annotated bibliography is offered as a resource tool for literary scholars, historians of science, and historians of ideas. Annually since 1939, a bibliography of scholarship on the relations of literature and science has been compiled by the Modern Language Association. The present bibliography incorporates the work of the annual…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Science, Eighteenth Century Literature, Literature
Peer reviewedWidmer, Ellen – International Journal of Social Education, 1991
Discusses the relationship between the prominence of themes of the literate gentry woman in Chinese fiction and the rise of women poets. Examines later Japanese fiction to find influences of the woman reader and of earlier Chinese works. Explores the scholar-beauty novels, women as warriors, female martyrdom, and the equating of virtue with…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Authors, Chinese Culture, Confucianism
