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Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements

For Students 9th - 10th
This Washington State University site provides a wonderful source for all the literary movements that have taken place in American Literature from 1620-1920. Click on the movement (listed on the left)you are interested in (Naturalism,...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Classicism and Sentimentalism in Russian Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
College class notes on Russian classicism and sentimentalism.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: The Rise of the Novel

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how the novel took shape in the 18th century with the works of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne, and how the book industry responded to the new genre.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Newspapers, Gossip, and Coffee House Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how the coffee-house came to occupy a central place in 17th and 18th-century English culture and commerce, offering an alternative to rowdy pubs and more formal places of business and politics.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Letters, Letter Writing and Epistolary Novels

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the real and fictional letters published in the 18th century, from the correspondence of Alexander Pope and Ignatius Sancho to Samuel Richardson's hugely popular epistolary novel "Pamela" and the works it inspired.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: An Introduction to "She Stoops to Conquer"

For Students 9th - 10th
Oliver Goldsmith published several critiques of audiences and playwrights before writing a laughing comedy that was the triumph of its season and that continues to be performed today. This article introduces "She Stoops to Conquer",...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: An Introduction to Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

For Students 9th - 10th
"Pamela", or "Virtue Rewarded" evolved from a collection of model letters into a bestselling novel. This article introduces Samuel Richardson's work and its exploration of gender, class, sexual harassment, and marriage.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: An Introduction to Evelina

For Students 9th - 10th
Frances Burney's "Evelina" unveils the dizzying and dangerous social whirl of Georgian London, where reputations and marriages are there to be made and broken. This article investigates Burney's critique of fashion culture and the...