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Goldknopf, David – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Characterization, English Literature, Literary Perspective
Hewitt, Douglas – 1972
This book considers the right and the wrong ways to approach different types of novels. Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" is the starting point for chapters dealing with the conventions of realism as they are revealed in the presentation of characters, in the novelists' language, and in the tension between the autonomy of character and the demands…
Descriptors: Characterization, English, Language Usage, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedMerchant, Peter – Children's Literature in Education, 1989
Reviews literature from the first quarter of the nineteenth-century Victorian period. Examines how several Victorian novelists constructed new kinds of heroic stories, combining moral instruction with dynamic storytelling for their young audience. (MG)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Weintraub, Stanley, Ed. – 1967
The selections in this collection pertain to the predicaments faced by the biographer who must discover what he believes is the truth and then use this material to create a work of compelling interest. Arnold L. Fein, J. H. Plumb, and Hesketh Pearson present observations on the biographer's dilemma: the difficulty of determining the borderline…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature
