The English novel which was destined to live, in fact out live all other forms of literature, whether poetry or drama, and shine even today on the horizon of English literature as a bright star, actually rose and greatly developed in the 18th century. ... They not only needed education but also being unable to comprehend the classical poetry of Pope and Dryden that was envogue, demanded a simpler medium to cater to their needs and to their tastes. ... This indeed was quite a contrast from the poetry being written at that time. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Young adult readers often overlook poetry and view it as dated and monotonous. Ellen Hopkins is a contemporary novelist who has found a way to intrigue the minds of young adults using poetry in her numerous verse novels. ... The ability to incorporate poetry to young adult novels while bringing awareness to such intense and often over looked struggles is a skill that she has perfected. ...

• Word Count: 875
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Within lyric poetry, drama, and fiction, the greatest works are selected on aesthetic aesthetic grounds; other books are picked for their reputation or intellectual eminence together with aesthetic value of a rather narrow kind: styles, composition, general force of presentation are the usual characteristics singled out. ...

• Word Count: 660
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the essay "Why the Novel Matters" is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would...

• Word Count: 1195
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aphra Behn is a complicated figure within English theatrical history. As the first woman in England to classify herself as a professional writer and playwright, she wrote to support herself and to prove a point during a time when women were deemed subordinate to men. She was a commoner among royals...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. He is the first really great writer to come from the (more or less) working class, and much of his work deals with issues of class, as well as other fundamentals such as the relationships between men, women, and the natural world. At times he becomes mystic and visionary, and his prose style can be poetic, didactic, symbolic, and bombastic all within the space of a few pages. He also deals with issues of sexuality and politics in a manner which is often controversial. The Rainbow is ...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate