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Uchitelle, Daniel – Database, 1984
Examines the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalog (ESTC) database, which consists of items printed in the English language or in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth century. Scope of ESTC, access and fees, entering ESTC, access points, problem of subject access, browsing, and extent of coverage are highlighted. (EJS)
Descriptors: Databases, Eighteenth Century Literature, History, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedSebold, Russell P. – Hispanic Review, 1972
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Eighteenth Century Literature, Historical Criticism
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
Download full textHaviland, Virginia, Comp. – 1976
This annotated list of reading materials available to American children in 1776 includes both items published on this side of the Atlantic and works issued abroad and sold here as imports. The titles are divided into five categories: (1) primers and other instructional texts, (2) works intended for moral and religious instruction, (3) stories, (4)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedBormann, Dennis R. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1988
Reproduces portions of the first lecture given to the Philosophical Society of Aberdeen, Scotland--George Campbell's discussion of eloquence of 1758. Explains the importance of this document, asserting that it reveals the "belletristic" roots of Campbell's theory, and proves that his differentiation on the "ends" of speaking…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Manuscripts, Public Speaking, Rhetoric
Peer reviewedTaska, Betty Keene – French Review, 1973
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Eighteenth Century Literature, French, French Literature
Peer reviewedLudlow, Gregory – French Review, 1973
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, Formal Criticism, French Literature
Peer reviewedRodriguez Cepeda, Enrique – Revista de Occidente, 1972
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary Influences
Pollin, Burton R. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1971
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Influences
Peer reviewedGillis, 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
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
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
Curran, Stuart – ADE Bulletin, 1988
Notes that although women dominated the English world of letters in the late 1700s, eighteenth-century women writers have been ignored by literary scholars and historians. Asserts that this discrimination in favor of the canonized Romantics, such as Blake and Wordsworth, excludes women Romantics' valuable and lively literary contributions. (MM)
Descriptors: Authors, Eighteenth Century Literature, Females, Literary History
