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Peer reviewedMonaghan, E. Jennifer – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Offers a naturalistic picture of literacy in colonial North America by exploring family literacy in an early eighteenth-century urban New England setting. Uses the diaries and other writings of Cotton Mather (1663-1728) as sources on literacy within his family. Notes the importance of writing within the family. (SR)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Family Relationship, Literacy, Reading Research
Picard, Bernard – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, Formal Criticism, French Literature
Thomas, W. K. – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Neoclassic Literary Period, Imagery
Vales, Robert L. – 1973
This book is designed as an introduction to John Wolcot's works for the general reader, the college student, and the college teacher. Wolcot, whose pen name was Peter Pindar, wrote topical satire on public personalities of the eighteenth century, and his methods of criticism are the motif which guides each chapter and which unites all the satires…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction, English Literature, Higher Education
Paulson, Ronald, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Ronald Paulson, A. R. Humphreys, Winfield H. Rogers, Ian Watt, Maynard Mack, Mark Spilka, Aurelien Digeon, Andre Gide, Arnold Kettle, John Middleton Murry, William Empson, George Sherburn, and John S. Coolidge--all…
Descriptors: Authors, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature
Peer reviewedTilton, Elizabeth M. – French Review, 1976
Describes and analyzes Sauvigny's republican tragedy, "Vashington ou la liberte du Nouveau Monde" (Washington or New World Liberty), from literary and historical points of view. (DB)
Descriptors: Characterization, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, French Literature
Peer reviewedKraft, Quentin G. – College English, 1988
Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist…
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedPeschel, Enid Rhodes – French Review, 1973
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, French Literature, Lyric Poetry
Peer reviewedRodriquez, Laura – Revista de Occidente, 1973
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Eighteenth Century Literature, Foreign Culture
Peer reviewedMaravall, Jose Antonio – Revista de Occidente, 1972
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Foreign Culture, History, Literary History
Peer reviewedSchweitzer, Christoph E. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1971
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, German Literature
Finne, Jacques – Revue Lang Vivantes, 1970
Establishes a parallel between the supernatural and fantastic qualities of Le Comte Jan Potocki's literary works, and the English gothic novels by comparing the elements of terror, mysterious atmosphere, and the supernatural beings involved. (DS)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature
Steck, Paul – Neueren Sprach, 1970
Descriptors: Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, German Literature
Annunziata, Frank – Soc Stud, 1969
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Peer reviewedLittleford, Michael S. – Teachers College Record, 1983
Modern disillusionment with rationalistic and mechanistic creeds increases the relevance of the thought of Giambattista Vico, an eighteenth century thinker. Vico's "New Science" dealt with the origins of human consciousness and society, and with the development of human nature, knowledge, and institutions in ways that anticipate modern…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Philosophy, Eighteenth Century Literature, Epistemology
