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Peer reviewedSotiropoulos, Carol Strauss – Children's Literature in Education, 2001
Argues that precepts for cultivating the rational child, illustrated by Maria and Richard Edgeworth in their handbook "Practical Education," collide with fictional presentations of those precepts in Maria's novella "The Good French Governess." Considers how the collision between the demands of ideology and the needs of fiction…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Eighteenth Century Literature
Cismaru, Alfred – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Comedy, Eighteenth Century Literature, French Literature, Literary Influences
Peer reviewedBerman, 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
Schutz, H. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1973
Article to be continued. (DD)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Discipline, Economic Factors, Educational Philosophy
Peer reviewedWendt, 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
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 reviewedDowling, John – Hispania, 1970
Descriptors: Characterization, Comedy, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature
Heidenreich, Helmut – Neueren Sprach, 1970
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Language Instruction, Literary Influences
Peer reviewedAudet, Ronald A. – English Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedMorris, Madeleine – French Review, 1970
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Characterization, Christianity, Eighteenth Century Literature
Street, Jack D. – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Christianity, Eighteenth Century Literature, French Literature, Prose
Peer reviewedAbbott, Don – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1978
Examines eighteenth century Spain and the rhetorical thought of the Spanish "Illustracion," revealing the evolution of a modern theory of rhetoric which elevated expression at the expense of investigation and culminated in a literary, aesthetic, and belletristic conception of communication. (JMF)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Eighteenth Century Literature, Historical Criticism, Neoclassicism
Peer reviewedHerrick, James A. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1989
Explores how argumentation in the eighteenth-century miracles controversy (a century-long debate in Britain over the reasonableness of revealed religion) exhibited a controlling concern for procedural considerations. Discusses how the Deists and the Orthodox apologists used their argumentative force to advance rival methods for evaluating miracle…
Descriptors: Christianity, Debate, Eighteenth Century Literature, Foreign Countries
Watkins, Beverly T. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
A new electronic bibliography, the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalog, currently contains title and location information for 315,000 English-language books, monographs, and ephemera printed during the eighteenth century. The database is available to scholars on the Research Libraries Information Network and the British Library Automated…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Eighteenth Century Literature, Higher Education, History
