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Literature of the 19th century refers to world literature produced during the 19th century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) 1799 to 1900. Many of the developments in literature in this period parallel changes in the visual arts and other aspects of 19th-century culture.
In the mid 19th century, decadence came to refer to moral decay, and was attributed as the cause of the fall of great civilizations, like the Roman Empire. The decadent movement was a response to the perceived decadence within the earlier Romantic, naturalist and realist movements in France at this time. [ 52 ]
David Damrosch, Teaching World Literature (2009) Theo D'haen's co-edited collections The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011) and World Literature: A Reader (2012). Individual studies include: Moretti, Maps, Graphs, Trees (2005) John Pizer, The Idea of World Literature (2006), Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Mapping World Literature (2008)
Three-volume novels began to be produced by the Edinburgh-based publisher Archibald Constable in the early 19th century. [note 2] Constable was one of the most significant publishers of the 1820s and made a success of publishing expensive, three-volume editions of the works of Walter Scott; the first was Scott's historical novel Kenilworth ...
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
The series ranges over the literary works of various epochs and civilisations, including the literature of the ancient East, ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries (Series One), the 19th century (Series Two), and the 20th century (Series Three). Several volumes are devoted to British, Australian ...
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The three Rs [1] are three basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic", Reading, wRiting, and ARithmetic [2] or Reckoning. The phrase appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 19th century.