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5 days ago · Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
1 day ago · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
2 days ago · Jacqueline Langille, the managing editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, will be retiring in August after more than 20 years with the journal. An accomplished artist with a background in journalism and book publishing, Langille has been responsible for the day-to-day operations of the journal, working closely with former editor Peter Walmsley and current editor Eugenia … Continued
4 days ago · The 18th century. As the shifting meaning of the term Anglo-Irish literature during the 20th century demonstrates, there is disagreement about how to characterize 18th-century Irish writing in English. There is little disagreement, however, about the dichotomous nature of Irish society at that time.
5 days ago · United with other thinkers of his day—literary men and scientists—in the belief in the efficacy of reason, Voltaire was a philosophe, as the 18th century termed it. In the salons, he professed an aggressive Deism, which scandalized the devout.
2 days ago · Major American poets of the nineteenth century include Walt Whitman, Melville, and Emily Dickinson. Mark Twain was the first major American writer to be born in the West. Henry James achieved international recognition with novels like The Portrait of a Lady (1881).
5 days ago · This is a resource for teaching the first half of an English Literature course. The material covers Anglo-Saxon literature through the 18th century, including readings across 1,000 years of literature.This material would be useful for teaching a course that aims to instruct students on how to read, analyze, and write critically about English literature. The resources comprise important terms ...
