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Download full textCrossett, Becky F.; And Others – 1994
This unit of study for junior-high level high-ability language arts students explores five themes in 19th century American history through literature of the times: romanticism, transcendentalism, abolitionism, industrialism, and feminism. Each of the five "isms" has its own "literature box" that contains appropriate documents…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Computer Software, Feminism, Gifted
Horwich, Richard – 1977
Shakespeare's lifetime coincided with the consolidation of modern capitalism, and his plays reveal his interest in economics--defined as a rational system for calculating and comparing the value of commodities--and especially the economics of time. Shakespeare's plays offer a critique of the new capitalism by showing the extent to which it can and…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Drama, Economics, English Literature
Direct linkHoward, Jennifer – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Did he or didn't he? The question is vexing Coleridge scholars. Did the author of "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" compose a blank-verse translation of Goethe's "Faust" that was published anonymously in London in 1821? Two prominent Romanticists, Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick, both Americans, believe they…
Descriptors: Romanticism, English Literature, Scholarship, Conflict
O'Brien, Tom – Arts Education Policy Review, 2007
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has much to teach about arts education. However, the first question that many today might ask is, Should we listen to him at all? Wordsworth, some members of the postmodern academy have determined, was a bad man. He was unkind to his family and friends, they say, and they are uncomfortable with the politics he…
Descriptors: Art Education, Poets, Poetry, Popular Culture
Peer reviewedCalisch, Richard – English Journal, 1986
Discusses how traditional character types (such as Rip Van Winkle, the Ben Franklin character, and the Great Puritan) that Twain criticized through his satire survived his attacks and can be found today in many kinds of literature, including film and television. (SRT)
Descriptors: Characterization, Literary Criticism, Literary Genres, Literary Styles
Peer reviewedBanerjee, Jacqueline – College English, 1995
Argues that among the branches of historicism practiced by literary critics today, a branch of New Historicism that is broadly humanistic as opposed to narrowly political is the most illuminating. Describes the development and theoretical premises of this branch. Shows how it may be applied to the analysis of a literary work such as Keats's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Poetry
Peer reviewedBaum, Joan – CEA Critic, 1974
Argues that Wordsworth's emphasis on love of nature, faith in man, and political sympathy--three expressions of concern strongly echoed in contemporary life--make him a worth literary figure for young people to study. (RB)
Descriptors: English Literature, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature
Joyce, John J. – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1974
Presents a method for interpreting "The Tyger" both literally and figuratively while leading into additional assignments on Blakean poetry. (RB)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedMcGavran, James Holt, Jr. – Children's Literature in Education, 1986
Examines the Christian, humanist, and romantic dimensions of "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Christianity
Peer reviewedSammons, Jeffrey L. – German Quarterly, 1973
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Formal Criticism, German Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedKauf, Robert – Unterrichtspraxis, 1972
Descriptors: German Literature, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels
Peer reviewedRufino, Antonio – Italica, 1970
Descriptors: Formal Criticism, Italian Literature, Literary Criticism, Medieval Literature
Peer reviewedWolf, Virginia L. – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Discusses the vision of harmony in the memory of Laura Ingalls Wilder and argues that her books are more nearly romance than fiction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Language Usage, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Peer reviewedSchneider, Jeffrey L. – College English, 2002
Focuses on the way sexual excesses inscribed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Oriental discourses served to open up "queer" spaces in Romantic literature, while analyzing the degree to which the master narrative of British colonial domination was in part dependent on narratives of the sexual degeneracy of the Other. Focuses on…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Homosexuality, Literary Criticism
Marshall, Carl L. – 1975
One of the Afro-American writers who spoke out clearly during the postreconstruction period was Albery A. Whitman (1851-1902). A romantic poet, Whitman produced seven volumes of poetry. His profound belief in freedom and equality for his race is expressed forcefully in two long narrative poems, "Not a Man and Yet a Man" and "The…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Fiction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
