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The Emergence of Literature in 18th-Century France: The Battle of the School Books. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
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Tidman, Gemma – Oxford University Press, 2023
The "emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France" changes our understanding of when, how and why modern ideas of literature emerged in France. Using a unique blend of literary and digital methods, it argues that it was in the mid eighteenth century, rather than the nineteenth (as many have claimed), that the word littrature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Colleges, French
Peter Pindar (John Wolcot).
Vales, Robert L. – 1973
This book is designed as an introduction to John Wolcot's works for the general reader, the college student, and the college teacher. Wolcot, whose pen name was Peter Pindar, wrote topical satire on public personalities of the eighteenth century, and his methods of criticism are the motif which guides each chapter and which unites all the satires…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction, English Literature, Higher Education
Christopher Smart.
Anderson, Frances E. – 1974
This book is designed as an introduction to Christopher Smart's poetry for the general reader, the college student, and the college teacher. The political, social, and literary background of eighteenth-century England is examined in the first part of this volume. The second part concerns itself with Smart's life and the factors affecting his…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction, English Literature, Higher Education
Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Second Edition, Volumes One, Two, and Three.
Klinck, Carl F., Ed. – 1976
These three volumes present a history of Canada in terms of writings significant in thought, form, and use of language and contribute to criticism by offering reasons for singling out those works regarded as best. The first two volumes are revisions of an earlier edition, while the third volume, devoted to the years 1960-1973, contains new…
Descriptors: Canadian Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary History
A Handbook of American Literature: A Comprehensive Study from Colonial Times to the Present Day.
Day, Martin S. – 1976
This volume attempts to view the literature of the United States as part of the literature of the English-speaking people and as a part of world literature. Biographies of writers, summaries of plots, and footnoting have been minimized to devote the maximum attention to an examination of the literature itself. The book consists of studies of the…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature
Annual of the Modern Language Association Group on Children's Literature and the Children's Literature Association. Volume 5.
Butler, Francelia, Ed. – 1976
Because this periodical about children's literature was published during 1976, the United States Bicentennial Year, it features contemporary essays on American children's literature from the colonial age to the present. Other essays discuss the current state of children's literature and the practices used in its criticism, German and Italian…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Elementary Secondary Education