English Literature

Note: For original, visit the link below https://aggsliterature.wordpress.com/social-historical-context-for-top-girls/ British Society in the Early Eighties: How did society change for men and women from the 60s � 70s? What were the social changes that affected women�s lives? Many women entered the work force because they had to, financially and the 60s saw a surge in the

Link:http://americanbookreview.org/100BestLines.asp 1. Call me Ishmael. �Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. �Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 3. A screaming comes across the sky. �Thomas Pynchon, Gravity�s Rainbow (1973) 4. Many years later, as he faced the

Link: https://aggsliterature.wordpress.com/yates-literary-movement/ What Literary Movement most influenced Yates? Romanticism Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms