Professors, students, and anyone who loves to read will want this fascinating and attractive volume. Beginning with great works from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, this literary timeline gallops from Mesopotamian pictograms and Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic to Renaissance and Baroque masterworks by Machiavelli and Molière, and on to modernism. Along the way, it presents the birth of the novel, Gothic chills, Thomas Paine’s rabble-rousing, as well as landmark French and Russian authors, Emerson’s essays, and the first detective story by Poe. Victoriana, the Aesthetic Movement, Utopian Literature, and Naturalism make their appearance, all the way up to today’s Tom Stoppard and Tony Kushner. There’s a detailed introduction, plus color-coding to show whether a work is poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or drama.
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Carol Strickland has a doctorate in American literature and culture from the University of Michigan. She is the Christian Science Monitor's art critic and contributes feature stories on the arts to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Art and Antiques. She is the author of The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern (available in an updated edition), The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture, The Illustrated Timeline of Art History, The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature, and monographs on the artists Paul Waldman and Aris Kalaizis. A former college professor who taught courses on literature, American studies, and writing, she is now completing an historical novel set in 6th-century Byzantium. Her screenplays for feature films have won numerous prizes in prestigious script competitions. Carol lives in New York City and Long Island. Her website is http://www.carolcstrickland.com.
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This review is from: The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures (Illustrated Timelines) (Paperback)
This is a really lovely edition. It's paperback, but very nice with good quality glossy paper. It's smallish, about 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. The author gives brief but entertaining written sketches of the prominent figures in literature along a timeline. The timeline includes beautiful illustrations (taken from art works and photographs) for each figure or work highlighted. Every page is illustrated and there is lots of color. Also included are quick explanations of various movements, such as Elizabethan Theater, and introductions to four major time periods (ex. "From Classical to Chivalric"). This really is a beautiful book, fun to just browse through. At this price ($3.00), you should snatch it up immediately!
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