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7 de may. de 2024 · This article traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century through the turn of the 21st century. For a description of the oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, see Native American literature. Though the contributions of African Americans to ...
8 de may. de 2024 · Gothic Fiction in the Early 20th Century. English Gothic Fiction: 1902-1928 ; American Gothic Fiction: 1902-1928 ; Biographies, Criticism & Other Supplemental Information. English Gothic Writers from the 18th Century to the Romantics ; American Gothic Writers from the 18th Century to the Romantics ; English Gothic Writers of the Victorian Era
6 de feb. de 2024 · Elisabeth Leedham-Green. Oak galls. Materials: Inks, Pens, and Surfaces. The documents/samples of hands displayed here were written between 1500 and 1690, most or all of them with a goose-quill pen and an iron gall or carbon-based ink. Iron gall ink was made up from galls (usually oak-galls), copperas [copper sulphate] or green vitriol [ferrous ...
12 de may. de 2024 · Its popularity in Swift’s time was a response to the birth of party politics in 17th century England. Educated at Hertford College, Swift’s most remembered work is Gulliver’s Travels (1726), where the shipwrecked Gulliver is held captive by a race of tiny people, a story adapted for the screen starring Jack Black.
Hace 1 día · 50,700 dead. 83,467 captured [1] 127,000 non-combat deaths (including some 40,000 civilians) [a] The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651.
Hace 6 días · Young brings to our attention a ‘new kind’ of ghost narrative within the Catholic community in the 18th century, which came to ‘reassure and comfort as much as admonish and avenge’ (p. 104). This continued into the beginning of the next century, as ghost stories often were intriguing ‘curiosities’ as much as ‘fearful testimonies of divine providence’ (p. 114).
Hace 3 días · This hardly a surprising observation ('17th-century Calvinist in belief-in-hell shock'!), but it is a worthwhile one. As I noted in the book, the grand theme of divine tolerance and intolerance lay behind much contemporary discourse about toleration (pp. 13-14).
