The article begins by assessing Enid Blyton's contribution to the Arthurian revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, setting this in the context of longstanding debates about the function of children's literature. It goes on to argue that Blyton's use of the story of Enid in "The Knights of the Round…

Rather than focussing on the relationship between science and literature, this article attempts to read scientific writing as literature. It explores a somewhat neglected element of the story of the emergence of geology in the late eighteenth century--James Hutton's unpublished accounts of the tours of Scotland that he undertook in the years…

One of the most popular Dutch educational enlightenment authors was Hieronymus van Alphen. His three volumes of "Little Poems for Children" published in 1778 and 1782 were extremely successful, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Inspired by the German poets Christian Felix Weisse and Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann, Van Alphen brought about an…

Background: Twenty-first-century undergraduates often find eighteenth-century culture difficult to access and, influenced by popular assumptions about the period in current media theory, characterise the century as individualist, underestimating the cultural significance of social networking in literary and political history. Purpose: This study…

The extraordinary nursery library produced by Jane Johnson (circa 1742-1747), entirely in the private domain with no thought of publication, holds pride of place in the Lilly Library's collection of early children's books at the University of Indiana, USA. It has already been celebrated in an exhibition and international conference held at the…

Argues that precepts for cultivating the rational child, illustrated by Maria and Richard Edgeworth in their handbook "Practical Education," collide with fictional presentations of those precepts in Maria's novella "The Good French Governess." Considers how the collision between the demands of ideology and the needs of fiction raise questions…

Explores the reliance of rhetoricians upon logic for the theoretical basis of argumentation in rhetoric. Summarizes the major changes suggested by Locke and Hume, and explores the impact of the new logic on rhetorical "topoi." (JMF)

Examines eighteenth century Spain and the rhetorical thought of the Spanish "Illustracion," revealing the evolution of a modern theory of rhetoric which elevated expression at the expense of investigation and culminated in a literary, aesthetic, and belletristic conception of communication. (JMF)

Explains the plan and intention of the series of stories composing "Emile" in order to convince readers how imperative it is to study this work. In "Emile" Rousseau describes an ordinary boy and experiments with the possibility of his becoming an autonomous man. (Author/BC)

Selected examples of definitions, rules, and techniques found in several mathematics textbooks circa 1776 are presented. (MN)

Suggests that the family metaphor that was dominant in the rhetoric of both the colonists and the British government contributed to extreme polarization of positions of the British government in London and the British subjects in the thirteen North American Atlantic colonies. (MH)

This article describes the complementary portraits of post-revolutionary America painted by two French writers, Brissot and Chastellux. (Text is in French.) (DB)

This article examines America in terms of its influences on Chateaubriand, author of "Rene" and "Atala." (Text is in French.) (DB)

The relationship between American Quakers and the French, and the influences of the former on the latter, are described, as is the role of the Quaker in French literature. (Text is in French.) (DB)

Chronicles the successive changes in the image of the American woman, as portrayed by French writers from the eighteenth century to the present. (Text is in French.) (DB)