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Library digitization has made more than 100,000 nineteenth-century English-language books available to the public. Do the books that have been digitized reflect the population of published books? An affirmative answer would allow book and literary historians to use holdings of major digital libraries as proxies for the population of published…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Electronic Libraries, Novels
Download full textLeláková, Eva; Belúchová, Andrea – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The sentence structure complexity and clause positioning (Staveley, 2013) represent the striking features of the writing style of the 19th century British fiction writers. The present syntactic study brings detailed quantitative and qualitative syntactic analyses of peripheral sentence elements, sentence (stance) adverbials, occurring in the…
Descriptors: Nineteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Novels, Sentences
Canning, Nicholas Alexander; Nelson, Mark Evan – L2 Journal, 2018
Graded readers, simplified versions of literature and other texts at graduated levels of difficulty, are widely employed in contexts of foreign language pedagogy and are widely considered to be a form of written-language input ostensibly suitable for a wide array of developmental stages. However, the efficacy of graded readers is not unchallenged,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Literature
Dibavar, Sara Saei; Ahmadzadeh, Shideh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In "Wuthering Heights," Brontë provides us with the opportunity to meet two writing subjects; Emily Brontë herself and her character Catherine Earnshaw. Both these writers resist and challenge the authority of the patriarchal. Their different methods of interaction, though, cause one to fail and the other one to succeed. The objective of…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Figurative Language
Daiya, Krishna – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet whose name itself is a Metaphor for exquisite, rhythmic poetry laden with images of Nature as well as Man. He possesses the magical power of transporting the reader into an alternative world with the unique use of metaphors and imagery. His personal sadness was translated into sweet songs that are echoed in the…
Descriptors: Poetry, Art, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
Fonseka, Edirisingha Arachchige Gamini – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
According to the theory of dialogism propounded by Mikhail Bakhtin, all discourse in the novel is a product of a process of dialogic imagination. Yet heteroglossic situation in the novel differs from general narration, as it involves interaction among two or more characters speaking in their respective voices to represent different aspects of…
Descriptors: Novels, Discourse Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Speech
Smith, Richard – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
It is sometimes said that we are strangers to ourselves, bearers of internal alterity, as well as to each other. The profounder this strangeness then the greater the difficulty of giving any systematic account of it without paradox: of supposing that our obscurity to ourselves can readily be illuminated. To attempt such an account, in defiance of…
Descriptors: Novels, Nineteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Self Concept
Asl, Moussa Pourya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study attempts to indicate how the manifest content of a text is in essence the projection of the obsessional thoughts of the neurotic author. The research approach adopted in this study is what is referred to as psychobiography or the Freudian psychoanalytic criticism. Freud's ideas have been employed due to the increasing shift to him in the…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Mothers, Novels
Saleh, Nafiseh Salman; Abbasi, Pyeaam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
As a prolific nineteenth-century novelist, Thomas Hardy witnessed how women were treated as well as the dreadful conditions in which they lived. Well aware of the nineteenth-century limitations on femininity, Hardy stood for women's downtrodden rights. Henceforth, so as to examine Hardy's personal thoughts and impressions towards the prevailing…
Descriptors: English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Females
Allingham, Philip – English in Australia, 2015
Although secondary school teachers have long been aware of the pedagogical possibilities of Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response (articulated first in "Literature as Exploration," 1938) and I. A. Richards' Close Reading (first broached in "The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Secondary School Students, Social History
Liang, Yamin – International Education Studies, 2011
This paper mainly analyses the the id, ego, and super-ego which exists in the main character Elizabeth from several aspects, such as her pursuit for love, her prejudice towards Mr. Darcy, and the changes in her attitudes towards Wickham. This analysis helps readers appreciate this masterpiece from a different aspect which is related to the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Self Concept, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
Tomlinson, 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
Andrews, Arlene Bowers – Social Work, 2012
As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth, social workers may take note of the contributions Dickens made to 19th century social reform. Ever the advocate for people who were poor and oppressed, Dickens, in his timeless fictional narratives, continues to have relevance for contemporary social justice advocacy. This…
Descriptors: Authors, Nineteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Biographies
Saksono, Suryo Tri – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2011
"When I have fears that I may cease to be", by John Keats, portrays the poet's fear of dying young and being unable to fulfill his ideal as a writer and loses his beloved. Based on the use of sensuous imagery, it is clear that visual image dominates the use of imagery and there are two major thought groups: 1) Keats expresses his fear of…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, English Literature, Imagery
Wetzel, Grace – Great Plains Quarterly, 2008
An independent and strong-minded woman gains control of a farm and determines to effect its fruition. Though many doubt her capacity, the female landowner trumps her male counterparts when the farm flourishes under her effective management. In the end, she marries--but on extremely unconventional terms. Rejecting romantic love, she instead weds a…
Descriptors: United States Literature, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Twentieth Century Literature
