Written by the English and Media Centre with the Learning Team at the British Library, this free pack shows you how to make the most of the wealth of materials on the Discovering Literature website. Alongside digitized manuscripts and...

This page, from A Handbook to Literature, provides a definition of Romanticism and identifies characteristics of the Romantic movement. Describes the Romantic Period in American literature and names major writers of the period.

This nine-part workshop is designed so that it can be used for professional development by individuals, groups of teachers, or as a course for graduate credit. It features videos of eight elementary teachers practicing and discussing...

A nice discussion of the characteristics and attributes of modernism in literature.

The Nobel Prize in Literature website describes the prize and its past winners. Includes information on the authors, as well as acceptance speeches.

A brief history of scientific literature, followed by different ways scientific literature can be used.

This resource traces the changes in Japanese literature from its beginnings in the Nara period through the present.

Personal site specializing in the literature of Ivory Coast. Good list and description of women authors from that West African country.

Online instructional activity which allows students to create a graphic in understanding a given story/piece of literature. Students create this graphic in groups and then present to the class, offering explanations as to their...

This is an essay from the University of Evansville discussing the evolution of the Middle Ages and the formation of various languages that would yield literature.

Credited to Encarta, this article has good summary information on the history of Chinese literature. It covers all time periods.

A timeline of political and social events and American literature. Part of a larger site. Hyperlinks to information about individual authors.

This article by Morris Dickstein traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century to the late 20th century. It includes a section for each century providing historical...

How do you teach obscure economic concepts to younger elementary students? One way is through children's literature. This site has a large variety of children's picture books that teach various economic concepts such as supply and...

This resource discusses four controversies that concerned the Victorians: evolution, industrialism, what the Victorians called "The Woman Question," and Great Britain's identity as an imperial power. Includes multiple-choice quiz and...

Students are instructed in a nine-step process of how to write a literary response paper that includes a thesis, strong ideas, and specific supporting details from the text. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy

Drawing on New York City teachers' experiences, this article examines three ways to effectively integrate young adult literature into the curriculum: use core texts (usually novels, but also other genres as well) that the entire class...

Writing a great English paper can be tough because literature doesn't always reveal its deeper meanings immediately. Amy E. Harter offers a few tips on how to read and write more critically and thoughtfully. [4:12]

A chapter which looks at the development of African literature. Lists many sources for studying and reading African literature.

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan (1628-1688) and published in February 1678. It is regarded as one of the most...

Here are nine common critical approaches to the study of literature based on X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Literature: An Introductionto Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.

From the origins of the Gothic to depictions of the emerging middle-classes, these articles explore the key characteristics of late 18th- and early 19th-century literature.

This site looks at Indian literature in English. Tracing the beginning of Indian literature from the 18th century this site analyses key literary figures up to present day.

Explore key literary works of the late 20th century with these articles.