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Gleason, Gene – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1975
Discusses the lives and work of three popular nineteenth century authors of young people's books. (PF)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Literary History, Nineteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedZimra, Clarisse – French Review, 1976
Nineteenth-century French exotic literature, and America as one of its principal sources, are discussed. (Text is in French.) (DB)
Descriptors: French Literature, Literary History, Nineteenth Century Literature, United States History
Peer reviewedNimon, Maureen – Children's Literature in Education, 1988
Asserts that Sunday School magazines are significant in the history of children's reading because they were the most easily accessible literature for children in many English-speaking countries during the nineteenth century. Examines content and themes in two such magazines, "The Children's Friend" and "The Child's Companion and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, History, Literary Criticism, Literary History
Peer reviewedGuilhamet, Leon M. – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1970
Though the moral and poetic realms need not be kept separate, keats saw the relationship between them in a confused way....(This article is) an attempt to specify the sources of the confusion in Keats's mind." (Author)
Descriptors: English Literature, Historical Criticism, Literary History, Nineteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedHanson, Earl – Language Arts, 1979
Provides a history of Leo Tolstoy's writing of children's literature and a bibliography of children's books containing translations of Tolstoy's stories. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literary History
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
Peer reviewedBarish, Jonas A. – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1971
Cites examples from Austen, Melville, Bloy, Mallarme, and others to show how the animus against the stage and . . .against theatricality. . .reflects a continuing self-criticism of a permanent aspect of ourselves." (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Acting, Drama, Dramatics, Literary History
Cole, David L. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1989
During his long career as medical doctor, professor, lecturer, and author, Oliver Wendell Holmes produced, among other notable works, three novels designed to caution the medical profession against giving precedence to cures over causes in the healing process: "Elsie Venner,""the Guardian Angel," and "A Mortal…
Descriptors: Authors, Literary History, Literature Appreciation, Nineteenth Century Literature
Simson, R. – 1977
Black authors have long been telling America about its slave past, although America has apparently not been listening. Frank Webb's novel, "The Garies and Their Friends," was published in the same decade as Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and yet it has never achieved the popularity of Stowe's work, although its characters are…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary History
Bya, Joseph – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1971
Potebnja studied folklore in Russian literature through linguistic psychology, while Vesselovsky urged a scientific approach to studying literature. (DS)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Motifs
Download full textHickok, Kathleen – 1977
The social and literary representation of the unmarried woman of "a certain age"--the spinster--provides a convenient focus for observing the overall progress of all women in English life. As the single woman's stature increased in the esteem of her culture, English writers began to reflect the changing social attitudes by depicting her in ever…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, English Literature, Females, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedHeck, Edwin J. – English Journal, 1972
Discusses a Dickens novel relevant today because it specifically recreates the industrial age going into second gear. (Author/SP)
Descriptors: English Literature, Historical Criticism, Irony, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedJohnson, Paul David – Phylon, 1975
Asserts that the relationship between the Negro character and the white in American fiction before the Civil War reveals a social mythology which Herman Melville was the first to undercut, by presenting the destiny of Negroes linked to that of America as a symbol of nemesis to white Americans who disregard the impact of slavery on the enslavers…
Descriptors: Characterization, Literary History, Narration, Nineteenth Century Literature
Lafon, Francis; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
Three articles about Victor Hugo and his work focus on commemorative publications and exhibits in recognition of the 100-year anniversary of his death and on his theatrical works. (MSE)
Descriptors: Authors, Cultural Activities, Drama, French Literature
Peer reviewedWorthen, Edward H. – Hispania, 1972
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Hispanic American Literature, Italian Literature, Literary Criticism
