NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Stanwick, Peter A. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2016
This paper discusses the evolution of capitalism in British and American literature. The impact of capitalism on the lives of individuals has been well represented in both American and British literature throughout the centuries. The paper will discuss how seminal British authors such as Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and George…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Literature, United States Literature
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wilson, Melissa B.; Short, Kathy G. – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
The myth of home is what distinguishes children's literature from adult novels (Wolf 1990). Nodelman and Reimer ("The Pleasures of Children's Literature," 2003) write that while "the home/away/home pattern is the most common story line in children's literature, adult fiction that deals with young people who leave home usually ends…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Novels, Content Analysis, Postmodernism
Showalter, Elaine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Thirty years ago, every American academic going on a research trip or a sabbatical to England carried a copy of David Lodge's comic classic, "Changing Places" (1975), which told a tale of two 40-year-old professors of English literature and two embattled campuses in the eventful spring of 1969. An ineffectual British academic, Philip…
Descriptors: Novels, Educational Change, Cultural Differences, Higher Education
Abdullah, Szarina – International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1995
Analysis of trends in scientific publications of Southeast Asian countries revealed a high degree of knowledge dependence on English publications from the United States and the United Kingdom. Discusses the use of scientific and technical information as a catalyst to accelerate knowledge production, distribution, and industrialization in Southeast…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Developing Nations, Diffusion (Communication), English Literature