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An Essay Upon Projects
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Adler, Jacob H. – College English, 1973
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English, Literary Criticism, Literature
Books and Travel.
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Gillis, Christina Marsden – College English, 1982
Describes a tour of the places of Jane Austen's novels that is offered by the Association for Cultural Exchange (ACE) in Cambridge, England. (JL)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Higher Education, Literary History
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
Rhetoric and Gender in Jane Austen's "Persuasion."
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Walzer, Arthur E. – College English, 1995
Argues for a reading of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" that undermines Joseph Duffy's reading of the novel as a commentary on shifting social class structures, and which bolsters Nancy Armstrong's reading as a commentary on female voice and the values of the domestic household. Interprets the novel in the light of 18th-century rhetorical…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Females, Feminism, Higher Education
Who's a Yahoo!
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Wendt, Allan – College English, 1971
This report describes how something as conservative as an undergraduate course in eighteenth-century English literature can be changed by the application of new teaching techniques. (Author)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Educational Games, Eighteenth Century Literature
On Character in the Novel: William Beatty Warner versus Samuel Richardson and the Humanists.
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Kraft, Quentin G. – College English, 1988
Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist…
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism
"Beauteous Wonder of a Different Kind": Aphra Behn's Destabilization of Sexual Categories.
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Martin, Roberta C. – College English, 1998
Suggests that the poetry and the life of Aphra Behn illumines the dynamic of a fascinating transitional period in definitions of gender and sexuality; and that she was the true pioneer of this brave new world of sexual possibility in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (RS)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Higher Education
Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature in the Pocockian Moment (Or, Flimnap on the Tightrope, Kramnick to the Rescue).
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Dowling, William C. – College English, 1987
Notes that many literature students have disliked studying eighteenth century literature and reflects on the positive effect New Criticism has had on the teaching of it. Compares Kramnick's and Pocock's views with those of the New Criticism. (JC)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College English, Eighteenth Century Literature, Higher Education