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Download full textXu, Runjiang; Li, Yucheng – English Language Teaching, 2009
This thesis attempts to search for the clues related to British domestic exploitation of the peasant labors and overseas colonization of other countries after rereading the novel "Pride and Prejudice," with an aim to bring out Austen's intimacy with Imperialism. It will offer some insights into a better understanding of provincial world…
Descriptors: Novels, Didacticism, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedAdler, Jacob H. – College English, 1973
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English, Literary Criticism, Literature
Peer reviewedBradford, Richard – Visible Language, 1989
Examines how eighteenth-century critics treated the visual format of traditional verse as a determinant in readers' appreciation of form and meaning. Explores correspondences between eighteenth-century work and modern criticism. Argues that twentieth-century appreciations of the visual format of verse are limited by their concentration upon more…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Poetry
Peer reviewedEdwards, 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
Peer reviewedWalzer, 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
Peer reviewedMarsh, John L.; Tohtz, Jack E. – Exercise Exchange, 1974
Describes a method for analyzing "Tom Jones," emphasizing an historical approach which also reveals much about the culture of eighteenth century England. (RB)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction, English Literature, Higher Education
Delbouille, P. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1971
Descriptors: Authors, Eighteenth Century Literature, French Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedDe Saint Victor, Pierre – French Review, 1971
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Formal Criticism, French Literature, Historical Criticism
Peer reviewedAudet, Ronald A. – English Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism
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
Paulson, Ronald, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Ronald Paulson, A. R. Humphreys, Winfield H. Rogers, Ian Watt, Maynard Mack, Mark Spilka, Aurelien Digeon, Andre Gide, Arnold Kettle, John Middleton Murry, William Empson, George Sherburn, and John S. Coolidge--all…
Descriptors: Authors, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature
Peer reviewedKraft, 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
Peer reviewedSchweitzer, Christoph E. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1971
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, German Literature
Annunziata, Frank – Soc Stud, 1969
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Peer reviewedRoosevelt, Jinx – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1980
In analyzing the educational sequences of Goethe's novel, "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," the author suggests ways that this literary genre, the bildungsroman, which portrays an individual's development through a series of educational encounters, can provide teacher education students with material for studying the riddlelike quality…
Descriptors: Education, Educational Methods, Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary Criticism
