French literature of the 19th century

We have the Francophone assimilation by the French and of course the Anglophone’s indirect rule policy by the British. Both policies never went well with African but while the indirect rule policy was mild as accommodated some aspect of Africa’s belief system, the former was worse as enforces itself…

financially broke; they had to pay off utmost compensation to Allies according the agreement of the ‘Treaty of Versailles’. But lamentably, German was unable to pay off its compensation in 1921. This lead to the aggression of both the Belgium and the French troops into the Ruhr territory where they occupied Germany’s industrial goods. In 1923,…

Expectations and the Brexit by Amelia HC Ylagan In the cusp of the 19th century, Dickens is perhaps the most famous romantic writer telling of the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England at that time, in the narrative of a “condition-of-England” as the growing-up storyline (Bildungsroman) would paint, and in the message of challenged traditions as the Victorian girdling had constrained. The pathos of the Victorian novel is mostly based on a foundation-emotion of isolation…

Renoir was also a French painter who is considered the leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. He celebrated beauty, especially feminine beauty. Renoir was the child of a working class family and worked in a porcelain factory when he was a boy that…

The term homosexuality was coined during the Victorian period in the 19th century. it is a hybrid between a Greek and a Latin word (`homo` meaning `same` `sexualis` meaning `relating to two sexes`). Before the Victorian era (1837-1901), people`s sexual orientation was considered a personal matter. There was a gradual increase…

1810s, the French Empire reached its greatest size. The French invasion of Russia of 1812 dramatically weakened the French which then allowed Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Portugal to defeat France in the War of the Sixth Coalition. Napoleon was then exiled but returned to France on March 1, 1815. During this time, liberalism spread throughout much of France which made many states adopt the Napoleonic code because of the radicalism from the French…

among others. According to the center of Research on Language Acquisition, culture refers to shared patterns of conducts and interactions, intellectual hypotheses, and understanding that are acquired through learning. The word "culture" stems from a French word that originates from the Latin term "colere," which denotes growing, cultivating or nurturing. Currently, the world comprises of different populations socialized together, which have influenced several original cultures that are…

In this essay I will explore why female poets should be included in the Romantic canon. I will firstly look at Charlotte Smith who, arguably, began the Romanticism tradition since she predates and influenced William Wordsworth. By looking at Smith’s ‘Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex,’ from Elegiac Sonnets, and Beachy Head, I hope to express the connection between Smith’s poetry and Wordsworth’s. Anna Letitia Barbauld was another influence upon the male canonical writers.…

2. INTRODUCTION- LIFE AND WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe represent the first great literary generation of United States of America, this was the Romantic period in American literature. The Romantic outlook in case of novels was expressed in the form of romance but romances were not love stories. The protagonists of the American romance were generally haunted, alienated individuals. The isolated and alienated characters in the tales written by Poe were unknown and mysterious…

deemed “the most passive and repellent” (Tatar, pg. 117, 2017). However, different versions and film adaptations of Sleeping Beauty has been created for centuries. Hence, this version of the fairy tale that will be analysed throughout the essay has been written by Charles Perrault in 1697, which was titled “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” (French: La Bell au bois dormant). Therefore, this essay will analyze this fairy tale through the following three approaches: the gendered approach, a…