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Direct linkBurton, Maxine – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
Victorian fiction can provide a valuable source of information about society by virtue of its topicality and realistic techniques, influenced by contemporary journalism. In particular, the novels of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy throw light on literacy practices, including reading aloud. The higher the literacy levels of the novels' characters,…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Nineteenth Century Literature, Victorian Literature, Literacy
Download full textSaleh, Nafiseh Salman; Abbasi, Pyeaam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Heralded as a sympathizer with the oppressed nineteenth century femininity, Thomas Hardy adopted an aggressive stance towards the institutionalized codes of the time, particularly the ideal of femininity which results in presenting him as one of the promethean forerunners of "New Woman" fiction. His outspoken attitudes are tangible in…
Descriptors: Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Literary Devices, Victorian Literature
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
Wooden, Shannon R. – CEA Forum, 2007
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels and stories exemplify some of the main issues surrounding women's texts and their place in literature: aesthetic value, intellectual challenge, universality, and contemporary popularity. Her work, it may be argued, betrays occasional aesthetic imperfections; however, she produced a tremendous amount of published…
Descriptors: Victorian Literature, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Feminism
Peer reviewedDunn, Richard J. – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1970
With attention to Carlyle's and his contemporaries' reactions to his humour, this study examines Carlyle's theory and describes important practical successes and difficulties he had with it." (Author)
Descriptors: Comedy, Humor, Irony, Nineteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedFong, David – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1970
Examines historical, critical, and even psychological" relationship of Macaulay to Johnson, and describes Macaulay's ambivalent attitude to Johnson. (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedHarris, Wendell V. – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1971
A detailed analysis of the prose style used by John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice. (SP)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Nineteenth Century Literature, Textual Criticism
Peer reviewedSmith, J. Percy – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1971
The letters of Elinor Louise Huddart to Shaw from 1878-1894 reveal possible sources for Shaw's ideas on the New Woman." (SP)
Descriptors: Didacticism, English Literature, Letters (Correspondence), Moral Criticism
Peer reviewedMonsman, Gerald – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1971
Pater's theory of aesthetics is discussed and his influence on Oscar Wilde is briefly noted. (SP)
Descriptors: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Influences, Nineteenth Century Literature
Euwema, Ben – J Gen Educ, 1969
Discussion of the Victorian outlook on life with emphasis on the works of Browning, Tennyson and George Eliot. The author suggests that these authors attempted to "reconstruct christianity and to find a "firm basis for social progress and personal fulfillment. (Author/AP)
Descriptors: Humanities, Literary Criticism, Moral Values, Nineteenth Century Literature
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
Goldknopf, David – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Characterization, English Literature, Literary Perspective
Kenzel, Elaine; Williams, Jean – 1972
Developed for a quinmester unit on the Dickens family for the high school, this guide provides the teacher with teaching strategies for a course of study designed to familiarize the student with aspects of Victorian England through the multiple works of Charles Dickens. Works to be read and studied include "Oliver Twist,""Tale of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, English Instruction, English Literature, Minicourses
Watt, Ian, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Edmund Wilson, Ian Watt, Alan D. McKillop, Reuben A. Brower, Marvin Mudrick, Mark Schorer, Arnold Kettle, Lionel Trilling, Kingsley Amis, Andrew H. Wright, Donald J. Greene, and D. W.…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRevol, E. L. – Revista de Occidente, 1971
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, English Literature, Historical Criticism, Literary Perspective
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