This is post 7 of 10 in the series “Du Voyage Imaginaire aux Mondes Perdus” Ce thème littéraire, qui connut son heure de gloire entre 1864 (Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre de Jules Verne) et 1933 (Les Horizons Perdus de James Hilton), relève de la tradition modernisée du “voyage fantastique”. Il s’agit de …
This is post 4 of 6 in the series “Literary Movements” The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment The Gothic and the Fantastic The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature English Romanticism (1798-1832) 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries English Romanticism began in …
Introduction Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer born in 1931, who studied literature in Toronto. In the 1960s, she was a graduate specialist in Harvard and then came back to Canada to teach literature. She was a well-known poet with The Edible Woman (1969), Surfacing (1972), Life before man (1979), The Robber Bride (1993). Margaret …
This is post 2 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …
This is post 4 of 5 in the series “From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776)” From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776) The Reformation in the British Isles English Expansionism The Glorious Revolution of 1688 The American colonies : Religion and Politics USA: Birth of a …
This is post 1 of 5 in the series “From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776)” From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776) The Reformation in the British Isles English Expansionism The Glorious Revolution of 1688 The American colonies : Religion and Politics USA: Birth of a …
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Richard III” Comprehensive literary analysis articles delving into the depths of the tragedy Richard III by William Shakespeare. Richard III : Order and Disorder, the Elizabethan problem Richard III: the ambiguity of Richard’s evil It is very often an issue in Shakespeare’s plays. It deals with …
This is post 2 of 5 in the series “History of American Literature” History of American Literature Puritanism : a New World Vision An authentically American Literature American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence The American Renaissance American Modernism in literature Writing the territory: the literature of discovery and exploration Started as a vision in …