Why do so many women in 19th century American fiction end up dead? Why are so many men in 19th century American fiction single? Why can no superhero have a wife?
American Literature: It will make... More > you cry; it will make you laugh; and it will scare you silly.< Less
Why do so many women in 19th century American fiction end up dead? Why are so many men in 19th century American fiction single? Why can no superhero have a wife?
American Literature: It will make... More > you cry; it will make you laugh; and it will scare you silly.< Less
Research on Orientalism and the ways in which the West has imagined the East for the past five hundred years. It traces the representations of the harem in art, literature, drama, and travel writing... More > from across Europe and the United States.< Less
This reader has been prepared specially for use in the multidisciplinary course Liberté: France's Impact on the Nineteenth Century led by Brian Counihan at Community High School in Roanoke,... More > Virginia. The course is intended to present an introduction to the dramatic and hotly-contested progress of French society as it entered, and helped to create, the modern age. I have brought together artifacts and texts from the domains of politics, literature, history, philosophy, and art that attempt to indicate not only the dominant trends in French society, but also those underground counter-currents which have always existed within and against it.
This volume is the first of four; it covers the period from the French Revolution up to the eve of the July Revolution of 1830. Vol. 2 will pick up there and carry us to the eve of the Revolution of 1848; Vol. 3 to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War; and the final volume will bring us from the Commune to century’s end.< Less
This reader has been prepared specially for use in the multidisciplinary course Liberté: France's Impact on the Nineteenth Century led by Brian Counihan at Community High School in Roanoke,... More > Virginia. The course is intended to present an introduction to the dramatic and hotly-contested progress of French society as it entered, and helped to create, the modern age. I have brought together artifacts and texts from the domains of politics, literature, history, philosophy, and art that attempt to indicate not only the dominant trends in French society, but also those underground counter-currents which have always existed within and against it.
This volume is the second of four; it covers the period from the Bourbon Restoration up to the eve of the Revolution of 1848. Vol. 3 will carry us from there to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War; and the final volume will bring us from the Commune to century’s end.< Less
This reader has been prepared specially for use in the multidisciplinary course Liberté: France's Impact on the Nineteenth Century led by Brian Counihan at Community High School in Roanoke,... More > Virginia, though it is intended to be useful to independent readers as well. The course is intended to present an introduction to the dramatic and hotly-contested progress of French society as it entered, and helped to create, the modern age. I have brought together artifacts and texts from the domains of politics, literature, history, philosophy, and art that attempt to indicate not only the dominant trends in French society, but also those underground counter-currents which have always existed within and against it.
This volume is the third of four; it covers the period from the eve of the Revolution of 1848 to the threshold of the Franco-Prussian War. Vol. 4 will carry us from there to century’s end.< Less
This reader has been prepared specially for use in the multidisciplinary course Liberté: France's Impact on the Nineteenth Century led by Brian Counihan at Community High School in Roanoke,... More > Virginia, though it is intended to be useful to independent readers as well. The course is intended to present an introduction to the dramatic and hotly-contested progress of French society as it entered, and helped to create, the modern age. I have brought together artifacts and texts from the domains of politics, literature, history, philosophy, and art that attempt to indicate not only the dominant trends in French society, but also those underground counter-currents which have always existed within and against it.
This is the final volume of four; it covers the period from the Franco-Prussian War to century's end.< Less
In this relatively concise work is presented, so to say, a ''full moon'' with its four ''moons'' and their proper phases – in other words, a compendium with its four and particular short... More > stories:
A romantical youthful love between a mundane boy and an extramundane girl in virtue of a mentalistical projection by the Alexandrian magician Zosimos; a refined revenge in the environment of early Victorian London; an action tale in connection with the legendary Atlantis; and finally, a little theatre work on the likewise legendary king Arthur.< Less
In this relatively concise work is presented, so to say, a ''full moon'' with its four ''moons'' and their proper phases – in other words, a compendium with its four and particular short... More > stories:
A romantical youthful love between a mundane boy and an extramundane girl in virtue of a mentalistical projection by the Alexandrian magician Zosimos; a refined revenge in the environment of early Victorian London; an action tale in connection with the legendary Atlantis; and finally, a little theatre work on the likewise legendary king Arthur.< Less
An entertaining survey of English literature from Medeival times through the 19th century. An integral component of the House of Education literature program for Years 7 through 10.
