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Direct linkTomlinson, Johanna Ruth Brinkley – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Two children, Dan and Una, sit in the woods and listen to a story of Britain's early history told to them by Sir Richard, a spirit conjured from the past for this instructive purpose. In this tale, Sir Richard gains treasure by defeating the "devils" that terrorize a village of African people. In many ways, this framed narrative sets up…
Descriptors: Fantasy, English Literature, Childrens Literature, Children
Fader, Daniel – Library Journal, 1971
One hundred and thirty-one British periodicals on general subjects published between the Restoration and the death of Queen Victoria are now made available through University Microfilms. (MF)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Library Materials, Microfilm, Nineteenth Century Literature
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 reviewedBede, Jean-Albert – French Review, 1976
This article examines America in terms of its influences on Chateaubriand, author of "Rene" and "Atala." (Text is in French.) (DB)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, French Literature, Literary History, Nineteenth Century Literature
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
Peer reviewedPeschel, Enid Rhodes – French Review, 1973
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, French Literature, Lyric Poetry
Download full textWhitlow, Roger, Comp. – 1972
The more than 200 books listed in this bibliography contain poetry by black Americans written from 1760 up to the present. Books are listed alphabetically by author; the publisher and date of publication are also given. (JM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature
Arbur, Rosemarie – 1976
The literary works of four American women who lived before 1900 deserve to be introduced, if not reintroduced, to the study of literature in the United States, because of their literary merit, variety, and valuable contributions to American literary history. In a journal edited from a diary kept during a round-trip horseback journey from Boston to…
Descriptors: Authors, Diaries, Eighteenth Century Literature, Essays
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
Peer reviewedBenton, Michael – Children's Literature in Education, 1996
Examines issues about the representation of children in art during the 18th and 19th centuries: (1) main representations during this period; (2) principal influences affecting the construction of these images; and (3) whether the verbal and visual arts conceptualize childhood in similar or different ways. Looks at three influences on writers and…
Descriptors: Art History, Children, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature
Siegel, Gerald – 1975
A successful, elective minicourse in the literature of terror and the supernatural examined various literary works in the light of six goals: to examine the terror motif in fiction (in print and other media), to try to understand the reasons for the continued appeal of the literature of terror, to investigate why representative authors have…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Eighteenth Century Literature, Fear, Fiction
Speirs, John – 1971
This book considers the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who foreshadowed the imaginative development of the novel - its growth in introspectiveness, interest in the individual and psychological insight, in fulness, and in an exploratory-creative use of language. These are found principally in the work of Dickens, George Eliot,…
Descriptors: Authors, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, English Neoclassic Literary Period
Gerhard, Melitta – Ger Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Eighteenth Century Literature, German Literature, Literary Influences
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
Giorgetti, Dala, Ed.; Bonardi, Carlo, Ed. – 1982
Produced on the hundredth anniversary of "Pinocchio" in an attempt to draw a comparison of the books for children and young people produced between the end of the eighteenth and the end of the nineteenth centuries in various countries, this catalog, primarily in Italian, begins with a bilingual (Italian and English) discussion of children's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Global Approach
