War and Peace in British Literature British Literature Introduction War and peace wrestle with one another throughout the pages of human history. If war is broadly defined as armed conflict between two conflicting factions, states, or tribes, then one...

Race and Prejudice in British Literature Introduction Literature is at least as old as the fifth millennium B.C, and has accompanied mankind's most daring efforts to carve a place for culture in the slippery surface of time. The first sustained...

British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. By far the largest part of this literature is written in the English language, but there are also separate literatures in Latin, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic,...

Eric Mangini finished practice, met briefly with some of his assistant coaches and then hopped into Jets owner Woody Johnson's helicopter. The New York coach wasn't on a secret recruiting trip Thursday. He went home to Connecticut to surprise his mother, Nancy, at her college...

Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which houses the president's office.The threat of suspicious activity turned out to be unfounded, said...

The gunman blamed for the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history had previously been accused of stalking two female students at Virginia Tech and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005 after an acquaintance worried he might be suicidal, police said Wednesday.Cho...

One opened The New York Times expectantly, two days after Saul Bellow's death, ready for the Op-Ed tributes that seemed as certain to appear as The Times itself: Surely one or more of American literature's surviving phallocrats, a Mailer or a Roth or an Updike,...

In the excerpt that follows, Shevelow surveys periodicals targeted at women readers, tracing their evolution in the course of the eighteenth century and examining the means by which they defined themselves and their audiences.

In the following excerpt, Hilliard examines why Thomas Nashe's 1592 pamphlet Pierce Penniless, with its satire of Elizabethan ideals, opened the author up to widespread criticism.

In this essay, Maurer explores how early periodicals depicted and defined gender roles, family dynamics, and other social and domestic values.

The theme of nature in sixteenth century English literature functions as a means of expression, connection and understanding to the people of the time period. It serves as a way of association and knowledge of one's individual self, British society, and perceptions of God.

Evolving of Britain's national identity through the works of Aphra Ben, Phyllis Wheatley, William Shakespeare, Daniel DeFoe, Coetzee and Carly Phillips.

The importance of social status is often depicted in 20th century British literature such as in the short stories "The Verger" by Somerset Maugham and "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell. These stories portray characters engaged in social class struggles.