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"Some Perilous Stuff": What The Religious Reviewers Really Said About The Scarlet Letter, Lisa Smith
"Some Perilous Stuff": What The Religious Reviewers Really Said About The Scarlet Letter, Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith
No abstract provided.
"The Livery Of Religion": Reconciling Swift's Argument And Project, Lisa Smith
"The Livery Of Religion": Reconciling Swift's Argument And Project, Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith
Discusses Jonathan Swift's essays `An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity' and `Project for the Advancement of Religion and Reformation of Manners' with their focus on Christianity and the values of the society. Christian hypocrisy; Power and influence of the Church; Reader's perception of Swift's work.
Hawthorne And The Christian Review: Three New Discoveries, Lisa Smith
Hawthorne And The Christian Review: Three New Discoveries, Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith
No abstract provided.
Culture And Change: Attending To Early Modern Women, Elaine Beilin
Culture And Change: Attending To Early Modern Women, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. This volume reflects the commitment of scholars to the exploration of early modern women's culture as recovered through images, literature, music, and archives of the period. In essays on 'Stories,' 'Goods,' 'Faiths,' and 'Pedagogues,' scholars from a wide variety of fields discuss the contributions that reveal early modern women's influence on the societal and cultural transformations in which they participated. Nearly thirty workshops from the conference are summarized, and these offer a detailed …
Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers And Canons In England, France, And Italy, Elaine Beilin
Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers And Canons In England, France, And Italy, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
No abstract provided.
Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism, Spencer Hall
Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
This review studies gender discrimination in academic Romantic criticism. It brings to light the influence of the works of William Wordsworth on women poets. The review takes a look at the term "Wordsworth" and suggests it needs to be viewed not as a masculinist concept, but as a product of the combination of he and his wife's, Dorothy Wordsworth, works. The review states the book goes further past the knowledge that William used some of his wife's material as his "raw material" for his poetry and suggests that Dorothy intended to supply William with data.
Foregrounding The Background, Bruce Robbins
Foregrounding The Background, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
Robbins discusses how to better prepare students for reading the classics. Rather than providing a lengthy introduction into the history of the time period, teachers should simply raise an interesting question about the time period or unfamiliar elements in the story to pique the student's interest.
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Notes that teachers who teach short fiction must consider several things when choosing which works to teach. Describes criteria the authors use when selecting works for their literature classes (World Literature Survey, American Literature, and Principles of Literary Study). Concludes by affirming the importance of choosing short fiction.
"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Shows how the mini-casebook approach, with a few modifications, works well with upper-division writing assignments. Notes that a mini-casebook approach is nothing more than a self-published document including a primary work of literature, selected secondary sources on that work, and a selection of several specified topics on the primary source. Presents eight suggestions for implementing the mini-casebook approach
"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
"Shiloh": A Mini-Casebook Approach To Upper-Division Literature Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
Shows how the mini-casebook approach, with a few modifications, works well with upper-division writing assignments. Notes that a mini-casebook approach is nothing more than a self-published document including a primary work of literature, selected secondary sources on that work, and a selection of several specified topics on the primary source. Presents eight suggestions for implementing the mini-casebook approach
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
Notes that teachers who teach short fiction must consider several things when choosing which works to teach. Describes criteria the authors use when selecting works for their literature classes (World Literature Survey, American Literature, and Principles of Literary Study). Concludes by affirming the importance of choosing short fiction.
Viking Poems On War And Peace: A Study In Skaldic Narrative, Russell Poole
Viking Poems On War And Peace: A Study In Skaldic Narrative, Russell Poole
Russell Poole
No abstract provided.
Review Of Ralph E. Hone, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography, And Margaret P. Hannay, Ed., As Her Whimsey Took Her, Laura Ray
Laura K. Ray
No abstract provided.
Kenneth Grahame And The Literature Of Childhood, Laura Ray
Kenneth Grahame And The Literature Of Childhood, Laura Ray
Laura K. Ray
No abstract provided.
The Mysteries Of Gaudy Night: Feminism, Faith, And The Depths Of Character, Laura Ray
The Mysteries Of Gaudy Night: Feminism, Faith, And The Depths Of Character, Laura Ray
Laura K. Ray
No abstract provided.