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Character and Aging in Moll Flanders.
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Sokoloff, Janice M. – Gerontologist, 1986
Analyzes the novel Moll Flanders, written by Daniel Defoe in 1721, as a portrait of female aging timely for present day readers in gerontology. Notes that Defoe's writing shows an understanding for twentieth century concerns in regard to age-grading and the life cycle. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, Females
An End to Writing about Swift?
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Fricke, Donna G. – Journal of General Education, 1982
Provides a rationale for current scholarly studies of Jonathan Swift. Reviews the two distinct directions taken by modern authors writing about Swift: the traditional historical branch and the rhetorical and literary criticism branch. Considers evidence of and reasons for a revived interest in satire and anticipates areas of future study. (DMM)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary History, Literature Appreciation, Satire
Early Canadian Literature in English: A Survey and a Challenge.
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Edwards, Mary Jane – College English, 1989
Reviews eighteenth and nineteenth century Canadian literature. Notes that despite its cultural significance, this early literature has been dismissed by critics and scholars. (MM)
Descriptors: Canadian Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Foreign Countries, Literary Criticism
Voltaire's Portrayal of Old Age.
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Berman, Lorna; Nelson, Judy – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1987
Surveyed Voltaire's 50 plays to examine traits and roles assigned to elderly, influence of genre and author's age on portrayals, and factors to which elder's traits were attributed. Found elderly portrayed more favorably in tragedy than in comedy; no effect of period of life on portrayals. Wisdom was only trait consistently and specifically…
Descriptors: Characterization, Chronological Age, Comedy, Drama
Giambattista Vico Philosopher and Educator: Lessons for the Late Twentieth Century from an Eighteenth-Century Eccentric.
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Littleford, Michael S. – Teachers College Record, 1983
Modern disillusionment with rationalistic and mechanistic creeds increases the relevance of the thought of Giambattista Vico, an eighteenth century thinker. Vico's "New Science" dealt with the origins of human consciousness and society, and with the development of human nature, knowledge, and institutions in ways that anticipate modern…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Philosophy, Eighteenth Century Literature, Epistemology
Early English Dictionaries in Historical Perspective.
Balmuth, Miriam – 1982
The first true English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey's "A Table Alphabeticall," published in 1604. Cawdrey's book may be seen as the result of a number of dramatic events that had occurred in the century and a quarter that preceeded it, including the widespread use of the Gutenberg press. Printing became so much easier and cheaper that…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries, Eighteenth Century Literature, Lexicography
Humor in Children's Literature.
Alberghene, Janice M. – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1988
Surveys research on children's literature and humor by professionals in the field. Presents an overview of pre-twentieth century books which indicate the main lines of development of humor in children's literature. (FMW)
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature