Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 396-410
Author(s):  
Natalie McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Louisa May Alcott ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Washington Irving ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Hans Christian Andersen ◽  
Religious Origins

The most lasting Christmas fiction tends to use Christmas as a setting not as the main subject and to draw from the warmth and sensory onslaught of the holidays and on friends and families gathering, not on the specific religious origins of the holiday. Yet religious themes persist in Christmas fiction right up to the present day, even when the stories take place in fantasy worlds, such as in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter stories and C. S. Lewis’ Narnia. This chapter is not comprehensive in its coverage but instead focuses on those works that seem to have had the greatest cultural impact, including those of Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, and Louisa May Alcott.

Testing

Overwhelmed ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 165-222
Author(s):  
Maurice S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Louisa May Alcott ◽  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Fanny Fern ◽  
Normal Schools ◽  
Quantitative Metrics ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Standardized Examinations ◽  
Charlotte Yonge

This chapter sets aside questions of textual excess to discuss mass assessments and the production of literary knowledge or literary information. As the rise of liberal meritocracy in the Victorian period increasingly required bureaucratic impersonality and quantitative metrics, standardized literature tests negotiated between aesthetics and information during the formation of literary studies as a discipline. Literature exams from normal schools, the British Civil Service, and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs reflect broader controversies over what constitutes literary knowledge and whether it can be systematically assessed. Such concerns involve epistemological problems, as well as social questions. Race, gender, and class inflect depictions of standardized examinations in novels by Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, Fanny Fern, Frank Webb, Charlotte Yonge, Louisa May Alcott, and others. These and other texts anticipate aspects of the current crisis in the humanities—accountability through testing, the corporatization of education, and the instrumental value of the literary.

Washington Irving and Charles Dickens

1945 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 332 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Desmond Pacey
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Washington Irving

scholarly journals Romantic Travel Literature. England, Germany and Scandinavia Compared to the Unique French Case

Viatica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. THOMPSON
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
French Case ◽  
Hans Christian Andersen ◽  
The Common ◽  
Scandinavian Literature

This article offers an overview of the production of ‘romantic travel narratives’ from a European perspective and confronts those that emanate from French, English, German and Scandinavian literature. This comparison aims to establish the common characteristics of this sub-genre, its recurrent features and the cultural histories of each of the countries explored. Focusing on Charles Dickens, Friedrich Schlegel and Hans Christian Andersen, the analysis highlights the differences in their approaches, which are partly conditioned by the socio-historical context of their respective countries.

A. Requirements for Large Domes

1966 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Keyword(s):  
Main Subject

In continuing the sessions of the symposium, the main subject this afternoon has to do with domes and their facilities. This, of course, is a very important subject for observatories, because the dome serves much more of a purpose than simply to protect the telescope from wind or rain.

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